Query Store – Quick Tour
The query store, Borko Novakovic Senior Program Manager from Microsoft calls this feature “Similar to an airplane’s flight data recorder”....
2016-10-03
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All About SQL
My application to Microsoft
I have been eager to write this blog post for a while now. I want to share my experience of...
2016-09-29
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SSMS 2016& Azure SQL DBs
When using the latest version of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) there is a small but handy little feature that...
2016-10-11 (first published: 2016-09-27)
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Azure SQL Data warehouse
For this blog post I want to show you the steps required to setup an Azure SQL Data warehouse and...
2016-09-21
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SSMS Keeps Crashing
It is quite frustrating when SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) randomly crashes, all too often for my liking. If you have...
2016-09-20
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Azure IaaS Premium Storage Test
I thought I would share the output of some DiskSpd tests that I conducted on Azure VMs that ultimately will...
2016-09-19
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Restoring Azure SQL Database
A major benefit of Azure SQL Database (PaaS) is the fact that Microsoft manages the backups – it’s great because recovering...
2016-09-23 (first published: 2016-09-16)
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More PowerShell for the Azure World
The collection of Azure SQL Database cmdlets can be found at – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt574084.aspx. There are alot, however I tend to use...
2016-09-15
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PowerShell to create Azure SQL DBs
Recently I have been creating many Azure SQL databases via the portal where I started to find it quite tedious. So...
2016-09-14
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DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
Well, with the name “blobeater” it was about time I did another post on CHECKDB. This time I want to...
2016-09-14 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Blogs
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...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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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