2017-05-25 (first published: 2017-05-15)
1,637 reads
Scripts
Compute Holiday Day of the Month for any Year
This script provides the day of the month for the standard bank holidays for any given year. This is especially useful for computing the workday after a holiday.
2017-05-24 (first published: 2017-05-10)
506 reads
2017-05-16 (first published: 2017-05-05)
917 reads
Round Natural Numbers to the nearest Power of 10
An ITVF function that rounds a number to the nearest Power of 10
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-05)
377 reads
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-05-02)
382 reads
2017-05-09 (first published: 2017-05-03)
2,882 reads
Fix Orphan Users for All databases - Fixed Collation Problem
Most comman scenario which we face on everyday basis is to fix the orphan database users at the database level. You need to go to each database and fix the orphan users at the each databases.
2017-05-03 (first published: 2017-04-20)
690 reads
Quick and dirty script to ascertain datafile headroom
This is quick script to ascertain datafile headroom based on current size of the data in a file against the max size (which needs to be set for this to work!)
2017-05-02 (first published: 2017-04-19)
396 reads
2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-19)
1,203 reads
Find and Replace a value across all tables in database
End user has entered ‘goodmorning’ and ‘good morning’ interchangeably and it was causing logic failure at application level. So task was to replace ‘goodmorning’ with ‘good morning’ in database wherever it is there.
2017-04-28 (first published: 2017-04-10)
1,109 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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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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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