Microsoft Fabric roadmap
Microsoft Fabric is an awesome product that has now been in public preview for five months. If you are not familiar with it, check out my recent video where...
2023-10-11
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The Evolution of Database Administration: From Administration to Database Reliability Engineering
In the fast-paced world of IT, where trends like DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) dominate the landscape, the concepts of Reliability and Observability have seamlessly woven themselves into...
2023-10-25 (first published: 2023-10-10)
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An Important Break
I left home last Tuesday for work, heading to New Jersey for work. Over the weekend, I took a side trip to see my daughter play volleyball at university,...
2023-10-09
32 reads
October Is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease a couple of years ago. Since then, I have 9 made it a personal mission...
2023-10-09
32 reads
Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 4
Last week we have discussed how Null Values can cause a trouble in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3. This week I would like to draw your...
2023-10-09
21 reads
Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 4
Last week we have discussed how Null Values can cause a trouble in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3. This week I would like to draw your...
2023-10-23 (first published: 2023-10-09)
933 reads
How to Downgrade Or Recover a SQL Server Database To A Previous Version Using SqlPackage.exe?
How to Downgrade a SQL Server Database To A Previous Version?
Upgrading a SQL Server database to a newer version is one of the core duties...
2023-10-20 (first published: 2023-10-06)
972 reads
The Database DevOps Roadshow Continues (with fun photos)
At SQL Saturday Denver 2023, I had a few people ask me about the Redgate Database DevOps roadshow and how it was going. A few people asked about the...
2023-10-06
69 reads
A New Word: Ringlorn
ringlorn – adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as one depicted in old stories and folktales – a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths...
2023-10-06
133 reads
Using the Pure Storage PowerShellSDK2 - Part 2 - Working With Data
Welcome back to the second installment of our series using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2. In this post, we’ll dive into working with object data using Pure Storage PowerShell...
2023-10-23 (first published: 2023-10-05)
181 reads
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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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)...
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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