Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 1
Occasionally I'm asked how I come up with ideas for my blog to maintain the just about one a day...
2008-10-22
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I thought this was a great talk and interesting to watch. If you build software, I’d check it out
He has...
2008-10-22
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Water & Cell Phones Don't Mix
Obviously, right?
I managed to knock my Blackberry Curve off the bar and into a bowl of water in the sink....
2008-10-21
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Free SQL Server Health & History (SQLH2) Tool Updated for SQL Server 2008
Microsoft's free SQL Server Health & History tool (SQLH2) has had a minor update and can now be used with SQL...
2008-10-21
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Todo List Follow Up - The Notepad
Recently I posted about Managing My Todo List and I had a question via email about what notepad I was...
2008-10-20
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"The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with."
I know, another non-technical blog post. But this one is career-related as well.
In high school I was introduced to...
2008-10-20
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SQL Server Messages: fairies rearranging furniture.
SQL Server and Sybase are geared up
to send information to applications over two distinct channels, the results in
one channel that...
2008-10-20
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Understanding Microsoft Licenses - A Short Follow Up
I posted Do You Understand Microsoft Licenses about a week ago, and today happened to run across a note about...
2008-10-20
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Who Wants to Be Rich
Late in getting this one out there, but it's interesting to see people's responses. Especially to my story.
As a kid...
2008-10-20
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Final Preparations for SQLSaturday #8 on October 25th, 2008
I suspect final preparations will stretch all the way through next Saturday morning, but at this point we've done most...
2008-10-19
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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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