Once upon a time, I used to think of difficult technical questions to ask candidates for a DBA position. However, over time I came to understand that in most...
2024-06-07 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as a quick way for end users to input and manipulate data on their own without...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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My blog has been quiet lately. I recently wrapped up a master’s program (more details on that soon, once the formal graduation is behind me) and have been immersed...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Often times when working with a client, I’ll run into issues or get emails from a client with a message like the following: A connection was successfully established with...
2024-05-14
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Test Data Management (TDM) is essential in software development to ensure your application runs smoothly and reliably across different environments. When deploying applications in Azure, Test Data Management can...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Kevin Feasel
(blog | twitter) asks us about job interview questions.
What is your...
2024-05-13
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Introduction Full-Text Search in SQL Server is a feature that provides linguistic search capabilities against text data in SQL Server tables. It allows for searching of character-based data types...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday. As a start, I needed to read some of the archive data I have in Python. This post...
2024-05-24 (first published: 2024-05-12)
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Buckle up, database wranglers! Nowadays, SQL DBAs hold the keys to a company's most valuable asset: their information. But basic SQL knowledge won't get you far when it's time...
2024-05-11
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Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales for each month year split into different columns. At first glance, you may think “what’s...
2024-05-27 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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...
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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