The 2019 Home Lab
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2019-08-09
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Editorials
Timing is Everything
A phishing attack is directed at engineers, but it could easily be pointed at IT pros.
2019-08-08
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2019-08-07
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2019-08-06
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2019-08-05
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Best Practices and Band Plans
Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
2019-08-03
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2019-08-02
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The Problem with Users
Users cause lots of security issues, and we ought to try to work within that framework, with the understanding the we can't prevent all problems.
2019-08-01
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2019-07-31 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Working with People
One of the more important things that we can do as a professional is learn to work we well with others.
2019-07-30 (first published: 2015-09-09)
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Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
Forums
Symmetric Key Encryption
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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Building Your Own Software
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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