Re-blog – September 23 – September 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-30
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Blog Posts
SQL In The City: LA
Just a reminder that there are a few seats left for SQL In The City: LA on the 29th of...
2011-09-30
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SQL Saturday 89 in HotLanta!
So I am really close to Atlanta geographically, but I?m never there. I?m going to change that after this SQL...
2011-09-30
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SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX...
2011-09-30
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives: Volume II
Two years ago when SQL Server MVP Deep Dives: Volume 1 was released, I had the opportunity to contribute two...
2011-09-30
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SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup
Over the last week I have done several sessions either for the Pragmatic Works Free Training online or at SQL...
2011-09-30
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The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts...
2011-09-30
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What do you want to see from your PASS board? Me?
Many of you know recently the PASS board announced that elections will be coming up for three seats on the...
2011-09-30
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Chalkboard at the Office
This is something I saw recently, a large chalkboard – like the kind they used to have in schools – on a...
2011-09-29
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Getting Previous Row in SSIS Data Flow
There is no native function built in to SSIS to get the previous row in the data flow. But with...
2011-09-29
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Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers