PASS Pre Con - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of...
2011-09-07
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #64 (Officer Elections)
Recently former PASS President Kevin Kline posted his thoughts on the current slate of officers. I encourage you to read...
2011-09-07
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Presenting Banish RBAR! at Richmond SQL UG
On Thursday, Sept 8, 2011 at 6:30pm EST, I’ll be presenting Banish RBAR! to the Richmond SQL Server User Group....
2011-09-07
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Slides For My 24 Hours of PASS Session
The slide deck for my session Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware is available here. There are still twelve...
2011-09-07
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SQL Saturday #89 is 10 days away
I just 10 short days Atlanta GA will be hosting the most stellar lineup of speakers SQL Saturday has ever...
2011-09-07
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SQL Server Performance – September Story Contest 2011
SQL Server Performance – September Story Contest 2011
Want to win yourself an iPad2? Well you can! Tell your story, 50/50, refer...
2011-09-07
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SQLRelay Just Got Bigger Folks – The King is Back
Return of the King?
As if the original week of action planned was not enough SQLRelay just got Bigger!
Three brand new...
2011-09-07
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Thinking about taking a contract position? Questions to ask
Over the years, I have accumulated a set of questions that I usually ask the placement firm about a contract position...
2011-09-07
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24 Hours of PASS on September 7
Just in case you forgot, I wanted to remind everyone that the free, 24 Hours of PASS online event starts...
2011-09-06
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Blog Series: T-SQL Enhancements
Three months back in this blog post – T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server Denali (2011) – we promised to do a series...
2011-09-06
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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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