A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident
Found this link on one of the security mailing lists I peruse. You can find an archive of the original...
2006-07-11
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Passed Again
I took the 70-441 exam last week and passed, which is good since I'm
working on part of the exam prep...
2006-07-07
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New KB Article on Remote Mirroring Support Requirements
Microsoft has published a new Knowledge Base article on the
requirements to receive support for what is known as remote mirroring.
Requirements...
2006-07-07
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New Article on SQL Server 2005 Logins
I wrote a new article for SQL Server Central on SQL Server 2005 Logins. It covers the basics. This is...
2006-07-05
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Microsoft Office 2007 Delayed
It looks like Microsoft Office 2007 will be delayed due to performance
issues. It was supposed to release in conjunction with...
2006-06-29
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Idera SQL Check updated for SQL Server 2005
Idera's SQL Check
has been updated to support SQL Server 2005. SQL Check is a free
performance monitoring tool, not anywhere near...
2006-06-28
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WinFS rolled into next version of SQL Server
A blog posting from the WinFS team
caught me a bit by surprise today. Apparently I wasn't the only one,
judging by...
2006-06-27
1,547 reads
Passed
I'm doing a little work on the 70-441 exam book since an author flaked and so I took the exam...
2006-06-26
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Top 100 Network Security Tools
This is a bit dated (it came out last week), but here is the list of
the top 100 network security...
2006-06-26
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How Embarassing
Yesterday (6/22/2006) was the day to send out our monthly vendor mailing. Last year we added a newsletter a month...
2006-06-23
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Blogs
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...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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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