Midlands PASS August Meeting
Speaker: Darren Herbold
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 7, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 7,...
2008-07-24
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Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
1,293 reads
Blogging Thoughts - Part 1
One of the things I've been looking at is different blogging styles and trying to figure out which to recommend...
2008-07-22
1,328 reads
Building Better VMs
The other day I fired up my old desktop, intending to use it as background in the podcasts. It gave...
2008-07-22
1,008 reads
Disabling Indexes Published on SQLServerCentral.com
It's been a while since I had anything up on SSC, a combination of Steve being in good shape on...
2008-07-22
489 reads
Tool Review: Password Safe
I think we all struggle to keep up with various credentials needed to live our internet lives (single sign on...
2008-07-21
548 reads
Why Are Stored Procedures Too Hard?
Recently I was going through the buy or build process on a small segment of functionality needed for a project,...
2008-07-20
863 reads
Delayed gratification
Call me odd, but I enjoy taking certification tests. It may be that I've always tested well, or perhaps it's...
2008-07-20
668 reads
Patching
Probably the least enjoyable thing about being a DBA is patching servers. We received the bad news in the July MS...
2008-07-19
1,920 reads
Follow Up Notes on the Custom Whiteboard
A few months back I posted about our latest whiteboard and I thought I'd report back with an update. Initially...
2008-07-17
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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