SQLMCM Training – Day 15
The whole last 3 days I've spent almost every minute with reviewing the material from
the last 2 weeks (around 38...
2011-08-23
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
Chance to win a free seat in my Performance Troubleshooting Workshop in London!
As you might know, I'm running my "Advanced SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting
Workshop" from September 12 – 14 in Central London. You...
2011-08-21
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SQLMCM Training – Day 11
Today Jonathan presented on Replication and Paul about Database Snapshots, and his
baby called "CHECKDB" – he has been married with CHECKDB...
2011-08-19
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SQLMCM Training – Day 10
Today Paul was speaking about Database Mirroring and Jonathan was talking about Failover
Clustering – all in all a very intensive day...
2011-08-18
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SQL MCM Training – Day 9
Today Jonathan was talking the whole day about Consolidation and Virtualization. There
were again a lot of new concepts, and new...
2011-08-17
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SQL MCM Training – Day 8
Today Paul talked the whole day about HA DR Strategies and Backup/Restore operations.
I've already known a lot about Backup/Restores, but...
2011-08-16
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MCM Training – Day 6 & 7
My whole weekend was dedicated to MCM studying, and I've reviewed a lot of stuff that
we have learned through the...
2011-08-15
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SQL MCM Training – Day 5
Today I've not taken too much notes, because the whole afternoon was about the Management
Data Warehouse and Multi-Instance Management. But...
2011-08-13
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Service Broker sample application from SQLskills Immersion Event
You can find my Service Broker sample application which I presented during the SQLskills
Immersion Event in Bellevue here for download:...
2011-08-12
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SQL MCM Training – Day 4
Today Jonathan has presented on analyzing trace data, and Kimberly has spoken on troubleshooting
Plan Cache Issues and Index Consolidation. It's...
2011-08-12
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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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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