devLINK Call for Speakers to End March 13, 2009
If you are interested in speaking at the devLINK Technical Conference in Nashville, TN, August 13-15th, you need to get...
2009-02-25
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Microsoft Starts New Website Focused on IT Pro
Microsoft has introduced a new website (part of Microsoft.com) called Thrive. It is still in its infancy, but its focus...
2009-02-25
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A Cloudy Story
The other day Paul Neilson wrote a simple post making predictions about SQL Server in the Cloud. That got a...
2009-02-25
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Business Is More Than Code
Chris Shaw, owner of SQL Oncall, recently had an issue in his business. Chris provides DBA services on a remote...
2009-02-25
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Next Technical Speaking Seminar is March 14, 2009 in Orlando
I've scheduled another iteration of my Technical Speaking Seminar for March 14, 2009 in Orlando. It's free, and I'm hosting...
2009-02-24
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Excel Malformed File Vulnerability - Remote Code Execution
Today, Microsoft release a security advisory about a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. This one affects both PCs and Macs....
2009-02-24
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Determining if a Server Principal Owns Database Objects
This question comes up a lot in the forums: "How do I know if the login owns any objects?" Usually...
2009-02-24
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The Race to 50 (Prius Update)
When the weather is cold, the Prius performs much worse (relatively) than it does when it’s warm. It makes sense...
2009-02-24
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Kindle Update - Samples
I like being able to view samples on my Kindle. It's one of the very neat features of the Kindle...
2009-02-24
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New Video Appearing on Front Page of JumpStart TV
All of the videos I've done are up under my profile. However, the video for The difference between GRANT, DENY...
2009-02-23
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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)...
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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Building Your Own Software
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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