It is not a blame game.
Here is a hypothetical situation. A dba works for ACME Corp. Due to what ever reason a change has to...
2011-09-01
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Blog Posts
Job Exit Planning Strategy
I feel somehow sad today (Aug 31, 2011) to see one of my colleagues “laid-off”. I put quotation mark around...
2011-09-01
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September Question: Tell us about your DBA interview experiences: good and bad.
I have only interviewed for a handful DBA jobs over the years, but they have ranged all the way from...
2011-09-01
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SQL Server Backups – When is it current?
I saw a post recently where someone was asking about the restore sequence for a series of backups. The scenario...
2011-09-01
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Why you should blog more
I was trying to write an article for a long time. Every time I start writing one, I would put...
2011-09-01
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Windows 7
The other day I logged on to my backup laptop (Win 7 N 64 Bit) and had this nice little warning and error message to greet me. My activation...
2011-09-01
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Windows 7
The other day I logged on to my backup laptop (Win 7 N 64 Bit) and had this nice little...
2011-09-01
597 reads
Are You Willing To Relocate?
I've recently been talking to people looking for DBAs and one of the questions that always gets asked early on...
2011-08-31
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BI Battle Royale–Adam beats up a Hippie
Weekday Lunch RAW!
Welcome to the Smack-down ladies and gentleman. I couldn?t believe it when Brian walked into my office the...
2011-08-31
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Bitwise and Derived Table revisited
Today I am going to revisit two posts from the past couple of weeks. I want to revisit them just to make some minor updates and clarifications. This is...
2011-08-31
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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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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