Vacations Part II
One of the big decisions around vacations is whether it should be a 'do something' vacation or a 'do nothing'...
2008-09-11
1,254 reads
Business of Software 2008 - Dharmesh - On Startups
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-11
797 reads
Chrome
I'm not usually much of a beta software guy, but I saw the new Chrome browser (http://www.google.com/chrome) from Google last...
2008-09-11
768 reads
2008-09-11
423 reads
Blog Review - Yours & Mine
It's pretty common to see a mild plea from blog authors asking for feedback, or ideas about which to write...
2008-09-10
419 reads
Upcoming Presentation at the PASS Summit 2008
PASS asked all speakers to update their blogs with news about the event (a good idea), so here's my post!
I'll...
2008-09-10
388 reads
Notes on the Jacksonville Code Camp 2009
I'm a couple weeks last posting this, but wanted to get my notes down anyway for future use. The goal of...
2008-09-09
466 reads
Business of Software 2008 - A New Type of Company - 37 Signals
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-09
811 reads
Business of Software 2008 - Erik Sink
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-09
389 reads
Brown Bag Lunches/Training - Do They Work?
I'll define a brown bag lunch as a training event held at lunch time where someone on the team does...
2008-09-08
1,101 reads
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