SQL MCM Training – Day 3
Nothing to say about today, Jonathan did really a great job describing Extended Events
and Baselining/Benchmarking to us, and his boss...
2011-08-11
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Klaus Aschenbrenner
SQL MCM Training – Day 2
Today's day was Jonathan Kehayias days, and it was pretty impressive. Jonathan covered
the following 3 modules, and he can speak...
2011-08-10
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SQL MCM Training – Day 1
Today was my first day of SQL MCM training here in Bellevue. We started at 08:30am
and now (05:30pm) Kimberly is...
2011-08-09
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SQL MCM Training – Day 0
For the next 3 weeks I'm in Bellevue/WA for the SQL MCM training provided by Paul
Randal, Kimberly Tripp, and Bob...
2011-08-08
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My SQLbits sessions
Since today its official, I'm presenting 2 sessions at the SQLbits conference in Liverpool
(http://www.sqlbits.com) from September 30 –
October 1. Here...
2011-08-03
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My upcoming speaking engagements
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on Twitter about my upcoming speaking
engagements. I really realized at this...
2011-07-26
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How my SQL Server trainings helped Hannes and his company to improve their SQL Server based software
In the last months I have done a lot of SQL Server consulting engagements where I
have seen the craziest performance...
2011-07-05
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The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask
In today's weblog post I want to talk about the NULL bitmap mask and some mysteries
that you can encounter with...
2011-06-29
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Replaying workloads with the RML Utilities
In today's weblog posting I want to talk about replaying SQL Server workloads with
the RML Utilities. RML Utilities stands for...
2011-06-21
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My SQLPASS session
Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS
summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were...
2011-06-16
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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