More on Mentoring
Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here...
2008-04-28
1,378 reads
SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville - Final Reminder!
Just checked the registrations and we're at 354, with plenty of room for more! Brian has been busy tweaking the...
2008-04-28
1,363 reads
Visiting the Space Coast .Net Users Group in June
My friend Ken Tucker invited me to speak on June 11, I'll be doing a short presentation on SQL performance...
2008-04-28
1,567 reads
Orlando Heroes Launch Event
I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS, and we...
2008-04-27
1,514 reads
SQL Server in the Cloud
The April 15, 2008 edition of SDTimes (PDF download here) has some information about SSDS, the SQL Server in the...
2008-04-27
1,508 reads
Gotta love the Information Age
First it was CNN 24x7. Next the Internet brought us live information from around the globe.
Now this... real-time pizza tracking...
2008-04-27
1,440 reads
Recent slate of IIS attacks - more info
The recent slate of attacks on IIS servers don't seem to be an attack directly against IIS or against SQL...
2008-04-26
2,199 reads
I've got a date with an Error Log -- Error Logs Part II
Error Logs Part II -- Enumerating the error logs
In my first post on SQL Server Error Logs, I briefly mentioned using...
2008-04-25
1,752 reads
Cursors and high gas prices
Using cursors is a controversal topic. As a former developer, that is the way I thought about processing data at one...
2008-04-25
1,404 reads
More LINQ Discussion
Steve Jones recently posted an editorial about LINQ and the resulting discussion encapsulates most of the points of view on...
2008-04-24
1,780 reads
Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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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