SQLSaturday #52 - Colorado Details
What is SQL Saturday?
SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server....
2010-09-12
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Marc Beacom
Speaking at a SSWUG vConference
I was asked recently by Chris Shaw who is the site manager for SSWUG.org, if I was interested in speaking...
2009-09-27
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Denver SQL Server User Group Board Meeting Notes from 20090901
To address a few questions on what does the board actually do and to bring more visibility to all of...
2009-09-10
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Project Gemini
Dan English put up a blog post on his experiences with installing Gemini. His post is loaded with screen shots...
2009-08-31
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24 Hours of PASS
Image a full day of SQL Server and BI training. Even better yet, a full day of FREE training. Well PASS (Professional...
2009-08-24
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Presentation materials: Intro to Analysis Services (SSAS)
I did a presentation last week for the Denver SQL Server User Group (www.DenverSQL.org) and the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group...
2009-06-26
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Denver SQL Server User Group Meeting - Tonight (20090219)!
Denver SQL Server User Group:
A “Biking Buddy” Adventure Works hospitality report. Always have something in common to talk about with...
2009-02-19
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Analysis Services 2005 Deployment Wizard - Built by Design (Bug)
We use the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard when moving our cubes from Dev to QA and then QA to Prod. ...
2009-01-07
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Code Name "Kilimanjaro" - A couple of new features
I attended this years PASS Summit in Seattle and it turned out to be a great event. Many of the...
2008-12-04
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Clearing the Analysis Services Cache
You will see this or a similar code sample when referring to clearing the analysis services cache. However, I have...
2008-12-02
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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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Building Your Own Software
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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