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November 2025

PowerShell Windows
PowerShell script to extract SSMS 21 and 22 saved connection data

by Vlad Drumea November 22, 2025

by Vlad Drumea November 22, 2025 0 comments 2 minutes read

In this post I demo a PowerShell script I wrote to extract and decrypt SSMS 21 and 22 saved connection information. This script builds on the one for importing saved …

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SQL Server Workarounds
Import saved connections from SSMS 21 to SSMS 22

by Vlad Drumea November 17, 2025

by Vlad Drumea November 17, 2025 22 comments 7 minutes read

I wasn’t really planning on writing a blog post today, but I got curios if there’s any way in which connections saved in SQL Server Management Studio 21 can be …

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SQL Server
My SQL Server Management Studio 22 configuration

by Vlad Drumea November 16, 2025

by Vlad Drumea November 16, 2025 0 comments 10 minutes read

SQL Server Management Studio 22 just went GA this week, so I figured I’d document my new configuration in a blog post. A while ago I made a post about …

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Scripts Security SQL Server
Replicating SQL Server 2025’s PBKDF2 hashing algorithm using T-SQL

by Vlad Drumea November 2, 2025

by Vlad Drumea November 2, 2025 0 comments 16 minutes read

In this post I talk some more about SQL Server 2025’s new PBKDF2 and demo a method to replicate it using T-SQL. Intro Back in June I wrote a post …

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