SQL Server 2008 RTM - Community Thoughts & Resources
As has widely been announced in the SQL Server community, SQL Server 2008 has RTM'ed. It's now available for download...
2008-08-07
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Blog Posts
Negotiating - It's Not All About Winning
More and more I see business people adopt the mindset that any negotiation is raw combat with the goal of...
2008-08-05
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Free SQL Sticker from Paul Nielsen
A little while ago Paul Nielsen tweeted about having free Euro-style SQL stickers. All one had to do was email...
2008-08-04
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Great Read on the Difficulty of Computer Security
The SANS Internet Storm Center has a great handler post about working at the Abuse department for an ISP:
Securing a...
2008-08-04
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Kindle Update - August
Apparently the Kindle is a great success, financially, for Amazon. That's good to hear, though I haven't made the decision...
2008-08-04
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Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
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Tool Review: Snarfer
I'm probably in the minority, but I use an offline reader for consuming feeds. Nothing wrong with browser based readers other than that...
2008-08-04
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oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
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Cold backup and remote control of sql server services
I recently got a request to do a "cold" backup of a small yet complex db environment, I say "small" because...
2008-08-02
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You Hired Good People, Right?
In the current issue of Redmond magazine there's an interesting story in the Never Again column. It's titled:
Listen to the...
2008-08-02
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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