2009-04-28
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Blog Posts
European PASS Conference 2009 Has 254 Attendees
The 2009 European PASS Conference, which was held April 22-24, 2009, had 254 attendees from 22 different countries. In spite...
2009-04-28
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Security Basics: Defense-in-Depth
In my security presentations, another basic I talk about is defense-in-depth. The idea here is to produce multiple layers of...
2009-04-28
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Starting Conversations - Part 3
If you haven't already, start with Part 1 and Part 2. In Part 2 I mentioned that I have hired...
2009-04-28
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Asymmetric Keys in SQL Server
I've been tech editing an encryption book for SQL Server. It's long overdue, and I think it will be a...
2009-04-27
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Making Forums Work
I saw this post about Why I Dislike Newsgroups from Tom Larock and he did a pretty good job of...
2009-04-27
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Notes on SQLSaturday #13
I drove up on Friday with my friend Kendal Van Dyke. Long drive from Orlando, just over 8 hours. Arrived...
2009-04-27
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SQL Quiz 4: Leadership
I'm finally getting around to answering this one originated by Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw), as I was tagged by Jack Corbett...
2009-04-27
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When a Community Rallies!
I have been a bit lax these past few days, but I have been having a bit of a writers...
2009-04-27
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Visiting West Palm Beach SQL Group on April 29, 2009
I'm going to West Palm Beach on Apr 29th to visit Scott Klein and his group. I'll be doing a...
2009-04-26
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Blogs
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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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Building Your Own Software
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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