SQL Server 2016 announced as SQL Server 2005 support nears its end

For those of you still using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will completely end support on April 12th 2016. You can head over here to check out upgrade guidelines, download migration tools, and read more ...
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SQL Server 05: Grant Symmetric Key access to only 2 users

I got this figured out on StackOverflow, turns out the accounts I was using were all db_owner's of that DB so they had access to the key by default.<BR><BR>Once I created a new account that wasn't a ...