Surface Demo
Second try. The video didn’t embed in the previous post. Nor this one. Here's the link
Microsoft Surface Demo
This is from...
2008-11-26
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Surface Possibilities
This is interesting. I’m not sold on Surface, though I did play with one last week in Seattle.
2008-11-26
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Spend Money to Make Money
One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...
2008-11-25
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Airlines Don't Care About Customers? Nor Does The Government!
I saw this post about a recent panel that tried to come up with guidelines for airlines as far as...
2008-11-25
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Catching Up
My goal of 400 posts a month has been in jeopardy with all the traveling I've been doing over the...
2008-11-25
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PC Magazine Going out of Print
Saw a post from Michael Miller that PC Magazine will end it's print version with the January issue. Have to...
2008-11-25
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The Advantage of Seattle - Where to host the PASS Community Summit
I heard during last week that the 2009 PASS Community Summit will be back in Seattle, on Nov 3-6 next...
2008-11-25
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Digging into Replication
It's fun to read good work, and my friend Kendal Van Dyke recently posted How CommitBatchSize And CommitBatchThreshold Affect Replication....
2008-11-24
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Raising the Bar
Turning up the heat. Take it up a notch. Stepping up to the plate. Less talk, more action.
However you choose...
2008-11-24
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Immersed in work, and missing out on everything else
After 2 years working on a data conversion and software implementation project, I’ve finally started to get caught up on...
2008-11-24
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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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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