Blogging on SQLServerCentral.com
Recently my friend Steve (managing editor of SSC) posted to his blog about The Bad Karma Project that has to...
2008-07-30
1,370 reads
Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
1,447 reads
Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
1,477 reads
SQL Server Panel Interview
I was asked by Odin Jobs to participate in an email interview on SQL Server. Joining me on the panel...
2008-07-29
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IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
1,445 reads
Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
1,702 reads
Congratulations to Glenn Berry - SQL Server MVP
I just leaned today that Glenn Berry has had his MVP award renewedfor another year. If you have not read...
2008-07-27
1,325 reads
Database Weekly
At least this project is moving forward. We deployed a new design to the site this week, and turned it...
2008-07-26
1,438 reads
A Bad Karma Project
We've had a project underway to upgrade these blogs, moving to a newer version of Community Server, better skinned, etc....
2008-07-25
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Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
1,345 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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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
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