Midlands PASS Job Board
In order to assist those members of the Midlands PASS Chapter looking for new positions, I have put up a...
2007-02-26
1,347 reads
Hacked
Boy that was fun. Getting a bunch of emails that we had been hacked and tracking down someone updating all...
2007-02-22
1,523 reads
SP2
Mentioned by Tim Mitchell, but SP2 is out.
Seems more like enhancements to make things smoother and lots of changes in...
2007-02-20
1,464 reads
SQL Server SP2 released
Today, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005. Though mostly a series of fixes for minor issues, there...
2007-02-19
1,427 reads
Microsoft SQL Server certification
A few weeks ago I was engaged in a useful discussion about the merits of getting certified on Microsoft SQL...
2007-02-18
1,921 reads
Daylight Saving Time and SQL Server
If you're in the United States, chances are you've already heard about Daylight Saving Time (DST) occurring 3 weeks early...
2007-02-13
2,672 reads
Midlands PASS Site Online
I have put the Midlands PASS site online temporarily at Truth Solutions. You can reach it here:
http://www.truthsolutions.com/MidlandsPASS/
The slides from Paul...
2007-02-12
1,616 reads
Guest Editorial Week
I've been writing the editorials for over two years now and it's become an almost daily part of my life....
2007-02-11
1,452 reads
Midlands PASS February Meeting Postponed
We are postponing
due to the weather. Training Concepts has shut down for the day due to the wintry
mix....
2007-02-01
1,290 reads
Tools: ApexSQL Edit wins SQL Server Editor's Choice award
I meant to blog on this last month but work has been just a touch short of insane. I like...
2007-01-31
1,506 reads
Blogs
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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Forums
Symmetric Key Encryption
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Symmetric Key Encryption
The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why...
Building Your Own Software
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building Your Own Software
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