SQL Server Samples on CodePlex
Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...
2007-04-06
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Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...
2007-04-06
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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
On a recommendation, I picked up this book by Ralph Kimball. I remember it coming out years ago and I...
2007-04-06
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QA/QC
I wrote a small commentary on quality control today and I'm surprised it didn't get more reaction.
I'm not a great...
2007-04-06
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Hot Fixes
I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to...
2007-04-03
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Post Timeouts
Well one problem was solved. Or at least identified.
We've had an issue for a few years where you'd hit the...
2007-03-31
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Late Projects
I was talking with Andy Warren, my partner and fellow partner here, today about the Code Camp in Orlando last...
2007-03-27
1,445 reads
Ambition
I was always someone that was ambitious as a kid. For whatever reason, I've been driven most of my life...
2007-03-22
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Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage
First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....
2007-03-20
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Updated Website
I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
ArticlesReading ListChess Reading List
Nothing fancy or special, but...
2007-03-20
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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)...
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