Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...
2007-04-15
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Post SP2 Fixes
I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.
They do a good job explaining...
2007-04-13
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Not 4GB
Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.
I saw...
2007-04-13
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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?
Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...
2007-04-11
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New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer
ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...
2007-04-11
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Thoughts from Never Eat Alone
Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...
2007-04-10
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More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2
SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....
2007-04-09
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Help Johnny, Help Kids
I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...
2007-04-09
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Microsoft CRM Security Internals
On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.
CRM is...
2007-04-09
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How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds
This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.
...
2007-04-07
1,502 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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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