Small Leadership
Today Steve Jones talks leadership, and the value it can bring to your team if you display just a little of it.
2015-02-25
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Editorials
Making Plans
PASS President Tom Larock doesn't make long term plans. Steve Jones doesn't make long term plans. Do you?
2015-02-24
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The Query Store
This week Steve Jones talks about the query store after an article was released describing it.
2015-02-23
215 reads
Your Tools
In many occupations, workers invest in their own tools. However we rarely do that in technology.
2015-02-19
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2015-02-18
596 reads
SQL Injection, Still?
We still have problems with SQL Injection. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on why.
2015-02-17
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2015-02-16
79 reads
Salaries and Experience
Experience matters in setting your salary, but Steve Jones reminds us there are different types of experience, and there's more to life than money.
2015-02-16 (first published: 2010-08-31)
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Starting a New Job
Steve Jones talks about starting a new job and the need to get up to speed quickly, perhaps by being prepared on day 1.
2015-02-12
232 reads
Ship Safe...Ship Often
How can we ship safe, and ship often? Steve Jones has a few comments on the need for better engineering.
2015-02-11
94 reads
Blogs
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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
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