Tampa Code Camp - Again
This turned out to be a nice event, better venue than last year. Well organized is always appreciated even at...
2007-07-18
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New version of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer available
If you haven't seen the announcement, a new version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer is available for...
2007-07-17
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The meaning of Database Administrator
In two blogs I follow, Andy Leonard's blog on SQLBlogs.com and Sheeri Kritzer's The MySQL She-BA, the question of what...
2007-07-16
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QOD Day
Quite a few complaints on the QOD section from last week, mostly justified. A couple I had to defend, which...
2007-07-16
1,587 reads
New MySQL Entry Level Certification
Last week I received an email indicating that MySQL had made available an entry level certification, the Certified MySQL Associate....
2007-07-16
1,558 reads
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Templates and Styles
Ever wanted to change the default template and style for the Reporting Services Wizard? Just think how much time this...
2007-07-15
8,504 reads
Beta Testing
I'm not big on beta testing, or at least haven't been for a number of
years because I can't afford the...
2007-07-13
1,384 reads
Working in solitude
If you've spent much time at all reading Steve Jones's blog posts and SSC editorials, you quickly glean that he...
2007-07-12
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Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie
Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...
2007-07-12
1,391 reads
The Business of Software
It's interesting being at a software company, especially one that's
building on another platform. I've never done this before, having
worked for...
2007-07-12
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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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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