Attend the European PASS Conference 2009 in Neuss Germany
The European PASS Conference will be held in Neuss Germany (near Düsseldorf) from April 22-24, 2009. It will include 36...
2009-01-29
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New Business Cards
I ordered new business cards recently after I gave one to someone that needed to send me something and realized...
2009-01-29
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Ruthless Focus - An Addendum
Forgot I had this, a friend had sent it to a while back as something I might blog about. Mike...
2009-01-28
1,363 reads
PASS Update #3
It's been busy since my last update, lots of stuff to work on! I probably won't get it all in...
2009-01-28
1,438 reads
All the Aggregate Data you Crave with Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
As reporting requirements increase, it seems that aggregate functions have thankfully risen to the occasion concurrently. To maintain its competitive edge...
2009-01-28
2,690 reads
Do You Want to Help Provide Feedback on a New Book I Am Writing?
Normally when I write a book, I create a book outline, give it to my editor for feedback, make some...
2009-01-28
4,080 reads
Who Do We Choose to Follow?
Think about your career and the managers, and potentially leaders, that you’ve had in your life. Think about life in...
2009-01-28
2,034 reads
Ruthless Focus - A Different Type of Time Management Philosophy
If you could list all the reasons I work, the number one reason would be to support my family. My...
2009-01-27
1,590 reads
DBA Education
I always consider taking seminars and technical conferences as a key component in my DBA education framework
Last week (Jan 21...
2009-01-27
1,741 reads
It's Your Ship
I saw this book (It's Your Ship) in a Barnes and Noble and the title and cover attracted me. So...
2009-01-27
1,782 reads
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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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
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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