Engagement
I got a note from someone at Red Gate about disengagement with the newsletter and site. Actually it was my...
2007-08-09
1,411 reads
Table Partioning Article Posted on SSC
Article is at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/3135.asp. I'll have quite a few more on this subject over the next few months. As I...
2007-08-09
1,359 reads
Fewer Seats Make for Better User Group Meetings?
We had a visitor from another group at our recent www.opass.org meeting and it was interesting that one bit of...
2007-08-09
1,342 reads
User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles
Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty...
2007-08-08
1,441 reads
Dell Laptops, D-Link routers and Cisco VPN
It's not directly SQL Server, but it does prevent me from working with SQL Server 🙂
So I'm in Virginia this...
2007-08-08
2,902 reads
Am I a Good Customer?
Maybe not. This is a great post and cartoon from David Reed (a friend) mentioning me.
We've had some good arguements...
2007-08-07
1,588 reads
Risky Behavior
An interesting debate from one of my editorials on risk. Some great points raised by everyone, but I still think...
2007-08-07
602 reads
Professional Development Plans Article on SSC
This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...
2007-08-07
541 reads
No More SSNS
We've dropped an acronym!
In my rounds of the blogs today, a number of people have pointed out that SQL Server...
2007-08-03
539 reads
Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday
Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...
2007-08-02
472 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)...
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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