All the People Smarter than Me - Editorial
Today we have a guest editorial from Sarah Wagner that thanks all the people that have helped her become a better DBA.
2014-07-01
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Editorials
Application Developers don’t own their data
As a data guy, I always smile when application developers refer to ‘their’ data. If only it were that simple.
2014-06-30
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The Product Centric Career
How did you fall in into your particular career? Was it because of a product? Andy Warren talks about his career evolution and how often we become trapped by the products we work with.
2014-06-30
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Lockdown or Let Them Free
Do we take security too far? Are we creating unnecessary rules for those that need to use the resources we support? Steve Jones talks today about security and how we might want to approach it when handling rights for developers.
2014-06-27 (first published: 2009-09-21)
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2014-06-25
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2014-06-24
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Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly
Meetings are a part of modern corporate work that many of us despise. However is that because
2014-06-23
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Support The Boss
Providing support for your manager or boss in getting his or her job is a good thing. Steve Jones comments on what benefits you might get and why this could enhance your career.
2014-06-20 (first published: 2009-10-05)
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2014-06-17
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Kitchen Duty
As an employee, are you willing to pitch in for things that aren't a normal part of your job? Today we have Andy Warren notes that he has kitchen duty at work.
2014-06-16
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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...
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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