Volunteering
I've spent my spare time the last few weekends helping a non-profit called Fast Forward here in the Columbia, SC...
2007-05-21
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Webcast on exceptions and errors in SQL Server
When you have an hour to spare, jump over and view this useful discussion about errors and exceptions in SQL...
2007-05-21
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Stored procs vs user defined functions
I was at DevTeach/SQLTeach in Montreal last week. The conference was very well run and the organizers did a great...
2007-05-19
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The BI World
It's been an interestng week here at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle and a first for me happened this...
2007-05-11
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No Excuse
I know writing and working on SQL Server is hard. It's a huge project and just managing that is hard....
2007-05-04
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight
Our next
meeting will be on Thursday, May
3rd, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our
gracious host....
2007-05-03
1,558 reads
MCITP
Despite being without power for a few days, a hectic scramble at work to get things done, and kids off...
2007-05-01
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Powered Down
We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...
2007-04-25
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Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability
One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...
2007-04-23
1,594 reads
Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...
2007-04-16
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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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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