Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-23
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Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-23
9 reads
Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-23
85 reads
Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-23)
520 reads
Monday Monitor Tips – Adding Redgate Monitor Custom Metrics from SQLMonitorMetrics
This post talks about adding custom metrics from the sqlmonitormetrics.com site automatically and how this works (and how it doesn’t). This is part of a series of posts on...
2024-07-22
82 reads
Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance for Administrators, a Book Review
I was asked to review the following book by the publisher, and I must say that it was a good experience for me. I used the book to help...
2024-07-22
24 reads
Latest Update for Undercover Catalogue Powershell Interrogation Script
We’ve been hearing of a few people getting errors from the latest Undercover Catalogue, Powershell interrogation script. The issue seems to be happening when the scripts tries downloading automatic...
2024-07-22
36 reads
How I implemented database migration on AWS using AWS DMS
As a Software Engineer, I would like to replicate a copy of my database from on-premise infrastructure to AWS. This will require me to look for a perfect tool...
2024-07-24 (first published: 2024-07-20)
375 reads
My personal experience dockerizing a Rust Application: Deploy to AWS ECR using Github Actions
I have heard about many interesting things about programming in Rust and I decided to use Rust for one of my applications. I enjoyed the programming experience in Rust...
2024-08-02 (first published: 2024-07-20)
221 reads
Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-19)
168 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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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