A New Word: Ochisia
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life could be refilled without a second thought, which makes you wish that every breakup would...
2024-11-15
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Create a Numbers Table in Power Query
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if I need it somewhere in the future 🙂 Sometimes you need a numbers table (also...
2024-11-16 (first published: 2024-11-15)
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Microsoft finally adds Tenant Switcher for Fabric / Power BI
Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it’s finally here, a tenant switcher for Microsoft Fabric (which includes Power BI). A what? Let me explain. When you have a...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-11-14)
255 reads
Microsoft Releases Windows 11 ARM ISO – A Game Changer for ARM-Powered Devices
Yesterday, Microsoft released the highly anticipated Windows 11 ARM ISO image, marking a major milestone for ARM-powered devices. This new release opens the door for users to install Windows...
2024-11-14
151 reads
Building Effective Data Governance Framework: Top Areas to Focus On
The post Building Effective Data Governance Framework: Top Areas to Focus On appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-11-14
40 reads
Master the Foundational Basics
It tells us to take the time to master the foundational basics of whatever technology we're working with. If we have mastered the basics in the past, it behooves...
2024-11-13
172 reads
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here: Youtube Spotify Watch and check this out. This is especially close to my heart as...
2024-11-12
45 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He points out that often times, a quest for perfection means we don't move forward. We...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-12)
462 reads
Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to read it. It’s a very short book (only 106...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-12)
159 reads
Posting to Bluesky via PowerShell on macOS
The week of PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8), Bluesky seemed to reach critical mass with the data community as well as the tech community writ large. Over...
2024-11-12
6 reads
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