Turning Off Logging
I'm sure that most of you know that you cannot turn off logging in SQL Server. You can minimize the...
2007-12-17
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Lists of Tools
I ran across this list of interesting tools by Scott Hanselman and there is some good stuff to look at...
2007-12-14
1,360 reads
Google Knol As Community Competitor?
I ran across this in the Google bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html announcing a new beta feature called Knol that allows an author to...
2007-12-14
1,676 reads
Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition
The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....
2007-12-12
1,592 reads
12000!
A short congratulations to myself. I was answering posts last night after tech editing another chapter of the book I'm...
2007-12-12
1,476 reads
Driving Debate
I write a daily editorial, which is one of the reasons that I don't post here as often as I'd...
2007-12-11
1,395 reads
Managing Funds for User Groups
This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are...
2007-12-11
646 reads
Podcasting
A new video setup is on the way!!!!
Actually I'll do a couple podcasts on podcasting over the holidays here since...
2007-12-10
3,046 reads
Disappearance
Wow, it's been a long time since I posted here. I actually had to search for my name to find...
2007-12-10
662 reads
How do you make a Wiki work?
Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...
2007-12-09
634 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