The New Normal Annoyances
Steve talks a bit about the new challenges of working in a different environment and the challenges you might face.
2020-09-22
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Editorials
Compatibility Level Confidence
The database compatibility level ought to provide some protection from database upgrade changes, but do you believe that?
2020-09-21
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Would You Move For a Job?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Would any job be enough for you to uproot your life?
2020-09-18 (first published: 2016-04-04)
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Solving Real Problems
Today we have a guest editorial where Grant talks about being effective and practical in your world.
2020-09-17
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Aiming for Better Data Governance
Today Steve gives a reason why your organization might consider improving its data governance.
2020-09-16
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2020-09-15
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2020-09-14
163 reads
Automation is a Key Skill for the Modern DBA
This month's T-SQL Tuesday had lots of posts that look at automation from the DBA perspective, rather than the software developer.
2020-09-12
343 reads
Remote Work Benefits
Today Steve wonders if companies ought to support remote work better with other benefits.
2020-09-11
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2020-09-10
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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