Memorial Day
Today in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day, the day we remember American casualties of any military action. Though...
2009-05-24
564 reads
Hyper-V – A New Machine
I installed Hyper-V onto a new machine as a role for the base Windows 2008 server role. It required a...
2009-05-22
1,031 reads
A Flood of Books
I'm on a few publishers' lists as someone that reviews books, works with SQL Server, and in general might help...
2009-05-22
759 reads
Book Review: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ($14 at Amazon) was a book I picked up for travel,...
2009-05-21
680 reads
Denver SQL Server Users Group
I was late with family issues, and so I missed the social time when I was expecting to do a...
2009-05-21
618 reads
SQL Teach in Vancouver Coming Up Quick - Draught Presentation Ready (phew)
As Brad McGehee mentioned recently: SQLTeach (a part of the larger DevTeach event) will be held in Vancouver, BC this...
2009-05-21
1,063 reads
Workplace Discrimination in Quebec - part 2: Ignoring the Warning Signs
My Dearest Mister André Pratte,
Regarding your article in the Globe and Mail, I was quite surprised to see you run...
2009-05-21
1,601 reads
What is Twitter?
I saw an interesting blog post from Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) recently on what he thought Twitter was. I'd started my...
2009-05-21
1,912 reads
Starting Conversations - Part 5
I just finished up my third coaching call with Don Gabor (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) and...
2009-05-20
665 reads
Inside A Datacenter
I spent the last 4 days in Denver helping my company move in a new datacenter and while I was...
2009-05-20
577 reads
Blogs
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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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