Speaking at Orlando Code Camp on March 26, 2011
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Orlando Code Camp on March 26, 2011, at Seminole State College in Lake Mary....
2011-03-08
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #77 in Pensacola–Call for Speakers
Karla Landrum just announced SQLSaturday #77, coming to Pensacola on June 4, 2011. Pensacola is a great weekend destination, hit...
2011-03-08
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SQLSaturday#69 - Philadelphia Wrap-Up
Just wanted to take the opportunity to summarize my experience at SQLSaturday#69 in Philadelphia, this past Saturday. Another city, another amazing event! I haven't been...
2011-03-08
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SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 4
In a previous blogs, I discussed what shared schedules were and walked you through step by step instructions on how...
2011-03-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Statistics
For my data analysis and trending, I wanted to find a simple distribution across quartiles.
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T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Statistics
Data Size Collection and Analysis
By now you should be well acquainted with this phenomenon we call TSQL Tuesday. This party...
2011-03-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Windowing Functions and Ranking! Yum!
Let’s get this out of the way right now: I am SO going to take advantage of this T-SQL Tuesday...
2011-03-08
907 reads
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Released
Microsoft has released the RTM version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which is available on the MSDN Subscribers web site.
Microsoft’s...
2011-03-08
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An Outpouring From The Twitter Community
Last week, I was in Redmond, Washington, for the Microsoft MVP Global Summit. This was my fourth time attending the Summit; it’s a great opportunity for networking and providing...
2011-03-07
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An Outpouring From The Twitter Community
Last week, I was in Redmond, Washington, for the Microsoft MVP Global Summit. This was my fourth time attending the...
2011-03-07
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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