Achieve Better Performance
This week Steve Jones talks performance and a few things you might want to do that can help your career and employer.
2013-07-01
336 reads
Editorials
Give
The world is bigger than you, and when you help others, you realize that. Making that change might also make you happier, and more successful, in your career.
2013-07-01
110 reads
2013-06-28
190 reads
Better Technical Interviews
Technical interviews don't work great, but are they dead? Is there a better way? Steve Jones comments today.
2013-06-27
356 reads
Great Engineering Culture
Building great culture in a company is hard, and it takes work. Building great engineering culture can be more challenging, given the strong ideas and opinions people have in technology. Steve Jones has a few thoughts today.
2013-06-26
154 reads
More Data Security Issues
The state of data security is getting better in the US, according to the 2013 survey from Symmatec. However we still have issues.
2013-06-25
123 reads
Great DBAs do <blank>
We know a lot about how great exponents of the DBA profession work, but the role is changing rapidly. What makes a great Data Scientist? Or a great BI specialist?
2013-06-24
289 reads
When Is Work, Work?
Where is the dividing line between work time and personal time? As more and more employees get new phones, such as the Blackberry and iPhone, is the line becoming too blurred? Are there legal implications?
2013-06-24 (first published: 2008-09-09)
305 reads
A Release from Data
What do you do when work is too frustrating. Steve Jones talks about finding a way to release stress and frustration.
2013-06-21 (first published: 2008-08-14)
210 reads
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
2013-06-20 (first published: 2008-09-03)
188 reads
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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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