Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this last part, I'll talk about how I go about taking the exam.
2025-12-19 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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The Benefits of Teaching
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of time and effort, more so when you build your own content. So why teach?
2025-12-05
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Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive and access it from Power BI nearly live! We can officially short cut files to...
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-05)
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The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
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PASS Keynote Shots
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...
2025-12-04
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Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
2025-12-04
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SQL Server 2025: What’s New and Why It Matters
SQL Server 2025 is Generally Available
The post SQL Server 2025: What’s New and Why It Matters appeared first on Tim Radney.
2025-12-03
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What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights
Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote that instantly stood out as my favorite of the day “Is it possible? …..Why not!...
2025-12-17 (first published: 2025-12-03)
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Quantum Computing and SQL Server Article Is Up
In parallel with the presentation I gave at the PASS Data Community Summit on quantum computing's impact on data, I wrote an article specifically on impact with respect to...
2025-12-17 (first published: 2025-12-03)
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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)...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
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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