Notes on the Jacksonville Code Camp 2009
I'm a couple weeks last posting this, but wanted to get my notes down anyway for future use. The goal of...
2008-09-09
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Business of Software 2008 - A New Type of Company - 37 Signals
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-09
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Business of Software 2008 - Erik Sink
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-09
389 reads
Brown Bag Lunches/Training - Do They Work?
I'll define a brown bag lunch as a training event held at lunch time where someone on the team does...
2008-09-08
1,101 reads
Marketing - Seth Godin
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference that I attended last week in Boston....
2008-09-08
990 reads
Naked Conversations
Sorry, I couldn't help not including 'Book Review' on the subject line, hopefully you're not too disappointed!
I just finished reading...
2008-09-07
358 reads
Wish-list for SQL Server Replication
I have been working on sql server replication (on sql server 2K5) for more than 1 year now, starting from...
2008-09-07
908 reads
Renaming Databases Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Renaming Databases was just published on SSC, another in my lastest effort to expose some of the hidden complexities in seemingly...
2008-09-04
296 reads
Vacations
If all has gone well I've been on vacation this week, enjoying the world class quartz sand at Siesta Key...
2008-09-04
1,110 reads
Performance Tuning Tips From the Consultant Perspective
I do very little consulting these days, perhaps 4-5 weeks per year, and that only to make sure I maintain...
2008-09-03
297 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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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