SQLSaturday Tampa 2008 is This Weekend (Feb 16)
The Tampa crew of Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw and many volunteers have been working on this for the past...
2008-02-11
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Init from Backup Published on SSC
This article shows how to initialize a subscriber from a backup in SQL 2005. It's a niche technique, but it...
2008-02-11
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The Right Font
I was doing some development on my laptop tonight and I was getting fed up with the default font, Courier...
2008-02-09
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Do It My Way
Actually more it's "our way" as mentioned in Andy's post, and less my way than by committee these days with...
2008-02-08
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Thoughts on HTTP EndPoints, Schemas, and other niche features
Part of a conversation I had at the South Florida Code Camp was what I thought about various features that...
2008-02-07
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Chipotle - A Model Business? Or Just Good Food?
Had a friend forward this link to me about Chipotle and it's worth reading if you either A, like Chipotle/Mexican...
2008-02-06
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And then there was one
Windows 2008 RTM'd this week, which means that in a few weeks, at the February Launch event, there will be...
2008-02-06
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Free LINQ Book from MSPress
Introducing Linq is now available as a free download and along with chapters from Introducing ASP.Net Ajax and Introducing Silverlight....
2008-02-05
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting this Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Midlands PASS Chapter is pleased to announce our own Paul Shearer and Bill Stevenson as our speakers for our...
2008-02-05
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Preparing for SQL Server 2005 Certification
I never did complete my MCDBA. As I was preparing to, I transitioned to my systems architect role, meaning I...
2008-02-05
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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