Backup Preparations
This week Steve asks you to make sure you practice your restore skills periodically.
2017-07-03
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Editorials
2017-07-03
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A Database Design Test
Steve Jones saw a database design test for developers, but he's never been given one.
2017-06-30
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Handling Data Corruption
This week Steve Jones wonders what you might do if you discovered data corruption.
2017-06-29
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2017-06-28
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Classifying Sensitive Data
The ability to protect, and perhaps handle, sensitive data separately from other data is becoming more important. Steve Jones discusses the process and asks if it's something you perform on a regular basis.
2017-06-27
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Improving Replication
If you have ideas for how to improve replication, Steve Jones is asking for them.
2017-06-26
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The Forgotten Editorial
Phil Factor reflects on the occasional benefits of document loss, whether accidental or less so.
2017-06-26
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The Traveling Data Professional
This week Steve Jones talks about the need to get away and asks if you have plans.
2017-06-23
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Backup Plans for Data Loss
Today Steve Jones discusses data loss, always a scary topic for the data professional.
2017-06-22
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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)...
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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