Changing the Data Type of a Primary Key–#SQLNewBlogger
A client asked this question recently: How do I change my numeric PK to a character type? I decided to write a short blog on how to do this....
2023-12-01 (first published: 2023-11-20)
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Building Upon Your Productivity Momentum: Staying Productive For Life
Note: I found this sitting in my Medium draft. This was a cross-post from my old productivity blog that got lost in oblivion. Productivity is never an accident. It...
2023-12-01 (first published: 2023-11-17)
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Is that the right question to ask?
This is not a “clickbait” title, but an important consideration when it comes to developing technical solutions. Let me give you an example between two questions for SQL Server...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-17)
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A New Word: Vaucasy
vaucasy – n. the feat that you’re little more than a product of your circumstances, that for all the thought you put into shaping your believes and behaviors and...
2023-11-17
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Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit
The WIT panel spoke on an excellent topic today: needing, and finding, allies at work. Afterward and for the first […]
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2023-11-16
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Part 1: The Modern Azure Data Warehouse – Choosing The Tech
With reports hitting the transactional databases, we were encountering performance issues. We needed to choose a path forward that would lighten the load on the prod database servers and...
2023-11-27 (first published: 2023-11-16)
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 2
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event again today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we will dive...
2023-11-16
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Cosmos DB – Monitoring performance
Cosmos DB has become my latest focus and I hope to start sharing more about ways you can use it. Cosmos DB doesn’t provide the same granularity of query...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-15)
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Webinar: How to Harden SQL Server
On November 29, 2023, at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time, I'm presenting a webinar on how to harden SQL Server.
2023-11-15
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PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 1
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we have Shireesh Thota,...
2023-11-15
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Blogs
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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...
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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