Tool Review: Quicken
I've used Quicken for a long time now and it's the center of how I manage finances at home. There...
2008-08-25
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Kindle - On Hold
Just as I was debating whether to take advantage of Amazon's $100 savings offer on the Kindle (with a new...
2008-08-25
1,945 reads
Assessing DB Changes
One of the things I teach in our admin course is that it's not enough to just be the gatekeeper/central...
2008-08-24
1,446 reads
Taking Care of Employees - Storms
As I write this a tropical storm is passing over Orlando and has turned out to be milder than expected...
2008-08-21
1,402 reads
Kindle - On the clock
In a week and a half, I start on the first of my four trips this year for work, and...
2008-08-21
1,459 reads
Deleting Duplicates without a unique key
The following was sent to me by my friend and colleague Dave Miller:
Dave's Email:
Wanted to pass along something I hadn't...
2008-08-21
1,626 reads
SQLSaturday #8 in Orlando - Update (Aug 21)
Registration has been open for only a few weeks and we've got 110 registered so far, a nice start! We...
2008-08-20
1,461 reads
Troubleshooting High Connections & What's The Application Name?
I was visiting with a client recently when they asked me to come take a look at an incident in...
2008-08-20
1,369 reads
[Off Topic] The Big Apple
I got my first opportunity to visit New York City last week. I was actually sitting in on a training...
2008-08-20
1,555 reads
Notes on My Visit to the St Louis SQL Group
Actually it was subset of the group, but Kathi & Julie from the St Louis SQL Server User Group did a...
2008-08-19
1,420 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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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