Mining for Experts
How do you determine who is an expert in a field? Or if they are willing to answer questions for others? A new system that should do just that intrigues Steve Jones.
2009-05-03
559 reads
Editorial - WMV
Mistakes in April
Steve Jones has a blooper reel for today that shows some of the things that happen when shooting a daily podcast.
2009-04-29
619 reads
Secure Storage
How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-28
544 reads
The Best High Availability
Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
2009-04-27
689 reads
All-Access
A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
2009-04-26
644 reads
Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)
This week Steve Jones discusses ethics and leadership in IT.
2009-04-24
766 reads
Interfaces
The interface is crucial for getting data in and out of a system. Steve Jones talks a little about past interfaces and possible future ones.
2009-04-22
667 reads
Manage Your Career
The person responsible for your career is you. Steve Jones gives you a few thoughts on how you might approach your career.
2009-04-21
283 reads
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
2009-04-20
66 reads
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
2009-04-19
474 reads
Blogs
PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote
By Steve Jones
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...
A New Word: Skidding
By Steve Jones
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...
PASS Summit – Thursday
By Brian Kelley
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...
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Backing up the Database Encryption Key
In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:
USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers