Starting Conversations - Part 4
As I've mentioned in earlier posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I've engaged speaking and networking Don Gabor to...
2009-05-05
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Blog Posts
A Dead Zune and Choices
Shortly after the Zune debuted, I purchased one. And I've been happy with it. It's done everything I expected out...
2009-05-04
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Backing Up Asymmetric Keys
I've been tech editing a book about SQL Server encryption and this series of blog posts looks at some interesting...
2009-05-04
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Great Leaders in My Career
My friend Grant Fritchey recently posted in response to a quiz and at the end of that mentioned that he'd...
2009-05-04
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SQLSaturday #12 in Portland, OR on June 6, 2009
Just had a call with Ken Starnes last week and all is proceeding for a great two track event in...
2009-05-04
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Working Remotely
It's too quiet in the house.
So I headed out to get some lunch and work at Paradise Bakery. They have...
2009-05-04
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Writing a Technical Article - Structuring Your Article
This is part one of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
2009-05-04
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Notes on SQLSaturday #15
I drove up on Friday night for the speaker dinner, getting there after a busy day trying to catch up...
2009-05-03
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Do You Have What It Takes?
I was engaged in a conversation recently where the topic under discussion was "What defines an "A" class player?" Others...
2009-05-02
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Published, Again!
I have written two new articles and they are going to be published, not on SSC but on SSWUG. I...
2009-05-02
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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)...
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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