Slides & Samples for my SolidQ Summit Sessions
As I have announced in all of my sessions last week in Budapest at the SolidQ summit,
you can find here...
2011-09-29
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Blog Posts
Slides & Samples for my SQLdays Sessions
As I have announced in all of my sessions this week in Rosenheim/Germany at the SQLdays
conference can find here the
Slides...
2011-09-29
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SQL Bits Training Day
By David Postlethwaite
Just spent a day with Allen White, a SQL MVP from Ohio, USA learning about automating and managing...
2011-09-29
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SSIS For Each Column in a Data flow
Previously I wrote a blog on how to do a for each loop to look through each col in an...
2011-09-29
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The Two Day Adjustment
I made it to Cambridge and actually feel OK. I wonder how I’ll feel tomorrow, but the two day adjustment...
2011-09-29
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Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and...
2011-09-28
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Consultants: 1099 or W-2?
As a consultant or contractor, you can sometimes be faced with the decision when taking a new contract of whether...
2011-09-28
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David’s SQLBITS Day 1–The Travel Day
Just had a pleasurable 5 hours watching the Autumn countryside go by on a glorious sunny day (in fact its...
2011-09-28
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Format Disk for SQL Server
Managing large SQL Server inventories requires standardisation. Do your research , create the scripts , and apply.
Occasionally, custom changes are required . This...
2011-09-28
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Online index rebuilds
G’day,
I’m probably not the only one that has noticed that as the volume of data gets bigger in out databases,...
2011-09-28
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Blogs
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...
Adding an HTTP MCP Server to VSCode
By Steve Jones
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API...
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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