The answer to the question in the title for me is "maybe."  I have been thinking of writing an article called something like "You're not Paul McCartney and that's OK."

I...

I guessed wrong based on this sentence in the documentation:

A column master key should be an asymmetric key (a public/private key pair), using the RSA algorithm.

I didn't find anything...

One possibility would be to generate scripts of the database and all the tables etc., then use the script to create a new empty database.

(In SQL Server Management Studio, right-click...

Gee I thought the second newsletter was a special message to me, sending Steve's message about being in charge of Books Online. I didn't scroll down any further .... :-{)

Also,...

(edited -- duplicate of Steve's reply)

OK, it wasn't SQL Server and I was a developer and not a DBA but (without going into details) a lot of historical production data was lost because:
1) I...

The danger, to me, is that humans will be lazy. They'll start to trust the AI...

There is a problem with formatting. After my question about tables (which should have been removed) everything is in the red comment text.