Announcing SQLSaturday #10 - Tampa 2009
Pam Shaw & Wes Dumey are leading the charge for the 2nd annual Tampa SQLSaturday on January 24, 2009. They are...
2008-09-14
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SQL Code Review - Scalar Variables
One very common mistake I see when reviewing code is the case where the select statement is returning multiple rows,...
2008-09-14
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Business of Software 2008 - YCombinator - Jessica Livingston
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-12
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Kindle - The Two Week Followup
It's been two weeks since I got the Kindle. Actually it will be two weeks in a few hours. I've...
2008-09-12
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Vacations Part II
One of the big decisions around vacations is whether it should be a 'do something' vacation or a 'do nothing'...
2008-09-11
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Business of Software 2008 - Dharmesh - On Startups
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-11
797 reads
Chrome
I'm not usually much of a beta software guy, but I saw the new Chrome browser (http://www.google.com/chrome) from Google last...
2008-09-11
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2008-09-11
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Blog Review - Yours & Mine
It's pretty common to see a mild plea from blog authors asking for feedback, or ideas about which to write...
2008-09-10
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Upcoming Presentation at the PASS Summit 2008
PASS asked all speakers to update their blogs with news about the event (a good idea), so here's my post!
I'll...
2008-09-10
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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