Getting Better at Time Management
One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...
2008-01-03
642 reads
Blog Update & Feedburner
Steve finally got the bugs worked out of the recent blog software upgrade and RSS should be available again. Note...
2008-01-03
455 reads
Congratulations to Bayer White - Connected Systems MVP
Just saw that Bayer posted a note confirming that he is a 2008 MVP. I met Bayer a couple years...
2008-01-02
185 reads
Google Bigtable
Google has - and continues - to do some amazing things. It's easy to be awed by their products and their infrastructure,...
2008-01-01
459 reads
Congratulations to Steve Jones on MVP Status
Steve is a 2008 SQL Server MVP. Well deserved, I can think of few people more visible in the community...
2008-01-01
641 reads
A New Year's Present
I awoke this morning, rather later than usual after a small get together with some friends, and came down to...
2008-01-01
704 reads
Vista Woes
So my DVD drive in the new laptop appeared to be dead. It didn't appear in the "Computer" list with...
2007-12-28
1,466 reads
Comments on "The Exceptional Presenter"
I purchased The Exceptional Presenter recently as part of my professional development spending. I currently work primarily as a trainer...
2007-12-27
1,499 reads
PCMagazine Goes to Monthly Format
I don't have a URL handy for it, but in the latest print issue of PC Mag they announced changing...
2007-12-26
1,396 reads
Planning a SQL 2008 Launch Event
As a user group leader I see new products as a chance to make sure our members know about the...
2007-12-25
1,483 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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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