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Below is a list of various tools I use, some SQL related and some not. Follow the links to my...

2008-07-17

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MentoringNet

I ran across MentoringNet in a recent renewal flyer from ACM. I'm interesting in all things mentoring, so I went...

2008-07-14

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What is an MVP?

My friend Steve Jones posted an article called What's an MVP on SSC that in turn led to a moderately...

2008-07-13

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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';
GO

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