The Blogging Debate
It's an interesting debate on blogging in response to my editorial. I definitely thing blogging is worth a try. You...
2007-08-28
1,488 reads
SQLSaturday Schedule Announced
Our one day free SQL Server event is slowly gaining momentum! Draft schedule is at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/schedule.aspx. 30 sessions total and...
2007-08-27
1,580 reads
Comments on the 2007 Jacksonville Code Camp
I attended for the morning and Brian attended in the afternoon and did a session as well. It was interesting...
2007-08-27
1,328 reads
Getting Close
Actually we had a long meeting with the developers this morning and PMs over a remote desktop session and I...
2007-08-24
1,388 reads
Do You See What I See?
Working with developers is always very interesting, especially when you are a client. I'm sure that I'm not the best...
2007-08-21
1,412 reads
SQLSaturday Update
We went for a site visit Tues and I think it will really work out well for us. Good parking,...
2007-08-17
1,397 reads
Replication Book Review/Intereview Posted on SSC
Book reviews aren't easy and it's always hard to tell if you're telling the reader anything they can't learn from...
2007-08-17
1,354 reads
The Beta Cycle
I live in Denver. That's in the Mountain time zone, either MDT or MST depending on the time of year,...
2007-08-14
1,430 reads
The Performance Game
I've posted in the forums fairly often that there's kind of a black art to performance tuning. As with most...
2007-08-14
1,455 reads
Queueing Theory
There has been tons of work over the last few decades on queueing theory, mainly in regard to operating systems...
2007-08-11
1,676 reads
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)...
Forums
Symmetric Key Encryption
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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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