Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by John Morehouse Years ago, I saw the wave of the future and that wave was Cloud. The Cloud is not a fad...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-24)
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I have often made an effort to attend conferences in the past to grow my career. Even today, when I speak at a conference, I’ll try to go to...
2024-09-23
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Another discussion in Gothenburg (such a great group of people) around Extended Events lead to a (admittedly, tiny) idea for an additional use for sp_statement_completed. The basics for sp_statement_completed...
2024-10-09 (first published: 2024-09-23)
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Let's be honest – SQL can be a bit of a beast. At first glance, it seems simple enough. But as you dive deeper, the complexity ramps up. Suddenly,...
2024-09-23
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Sometimes, work tasks and questions that come up in the SQL Server Community Slack coincide.
A couple weeks ago, DrData asked
With SET STATISTICS IO ON, is there really no way...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-22)
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mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family – mixing a medley of ingredients that...
2024-09-20
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The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available as they are gradually rolled out across various regions. You can view the deployment schedule...
2024-10-02 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell script testing if the installed flyway version matches a specific string? That seemed simple, but...
2024-10-04 (first published: 2024-09-18)
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The partner directory connects your agency with new customers.
2024-09-16
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By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
By Steve Jones
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API...
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
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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