T-SQL Tuesday #73 - Not Running CHECKDB is Naughty!
This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradley Balls (blog/@SQLBalls) and his topic of choice is “Naughty or Nice.”
(If you...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-08)
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This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradley Balls (blog/@SQLBalls) and his topic of choice is “Naughty or Nice.”
(If you...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-08)
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Yet another late night/early morning tale...
The LOG backups for multiple databases on a server failed overnight (not all databases, but...
2015-12-03
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Today we all received an email from PASS's president Tom LaRock (blog/@SQLRockstar):
PASS Anti-Harassment Policy ReminderIt is unfortunate that I have...
2015-11-24
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…so the job failed….again…you know the one – that darn Integrity Check job: Executing query "DECLARE @Guid UNIQUEIDENTIFIER EXECUTE msdb..sp_ma...".: 100% complete ...
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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Brent Ozar’s group (http://www.brentozar.com/) just announced a pretty crazy set of “Black Friday” deals:
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/11/announcing-our-2015-black-friday-sale-on-sql-server-training/
Insane sales if you can be one...
2015-11-12
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This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mickey Steuwe (blog/@SQLMickey) and her topic of choice is “Data Modeling Gone Wrong.”
(If...
2015-11-12 (first published: 2015-11-10)
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Last week was the annual PASS Summit in Seattle. The Summit is the predominant educational and networking event for SQL...
2015-11-03
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(aka "OMG I can't believe I am actually finally writing a #PowerShell blog post").
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I currently have a situation at a...
2015-04-15
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The TL;DR - beware of Failover Cluster Manager trying to steal your non-shared storage!
--At a client recently two availability groups on...
2015-04-02
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UPDATE - due to weather conditions today (snow this AM and sub-zero cold tonight) we are postponed to next Wednesday 02/11...
2015-02-03
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By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
WA CS (08218154392) Equity Tower, Ground Floor, Unit D & Lantai 8, Unit E,...
WA CS (08218154392) Summarecon Serpong, Perumahan Gading Serpong, Jl. Gading Serpong Boulevard Cluster Scientia...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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