Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an author, columnist, and Microsoft SQL Server MVP focusing primarily on SQL Server security. He is a contributing author for How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 (Syngress), Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox), and Introduction to SQL Server (Texas Publishing). Brian currently serves as an infrastructure and security architect. He has also served as a senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA, database architect, developer, and incident response team lead.

Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology

Guidance on Microsoft Certified Architect Submissions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

For those considering the Microsoft Certified Architect program, some guidance on what to submit as documentation has been posted to...

2006-12-05

1,445 reads

Excellent post on encryption

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Laurentiu Cristofor has an excellent blog post, Who needs encryption?, which presents some point blank facts about encryption and the...

2006-12-01

1,638 reads

Professional Association of SQL Server - Midlands Chapter First Meeting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you are in South Carolina or a nearby location (Charlotte, Augusta, etc.) and are interested in participating in an...

2006-12-01

1,566 reads

TechEd 2007 tracks announced

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Microsoft TechEd tracks have been released early here:

Sneak Peak at the 2007 Tracks

For those who are interested in attending...

2006-12-01

1,475 reads

ApexSQL SQL Server VIP/MVP Offer

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

ApexSQL has an offer to anyone who is a SQL Server MVP or VIP for a gratuity of their ApexSQL...

2006-11-29

1,734 reads

Measuring pi by throwing frozen hot dogs?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I saw this today on my Google front page under the How To section:

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen...

2006-11-29

1,603 reads

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 Released

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you aren't familiar with Network Monitor, it's a packet sniffer that's a Windows component on the server builds (Control...

2006-11-29

1,588 reads

SysInternals now on Microsoft TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link as his old...

2006-11-27

1,675 reads

NGSSoftware compares Oracle and SQL Server security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first saw this at SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith's blog post Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft:

NGSSoftware...

2006-11-25

1,696 reads

Teaching Children to Program

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the blogs I follow is Andrew Coates' blog over at MSDN. He has posted about starting to help...

2006-11-21

1,451 reads

Blogs

SQL Server Quickie #48 – Azure SQL Managed Instance

By Klaus Aschenbrenner

Today I have uploaded SQL Server Quickie #48 to YouTube. This time I’m talking...

Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?

All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...

A New Word: Ochisia

ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...

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Forums

Export database and tables no table data

Trying to move a database from one sql server instance to another on separate...

Package to Project model conversion

Hi All, With previous customer range we were always required to work in the...

Issue with DBMail

By richardmgreen1

Hi all We've got 3 servers with the same setup for dbmail. They...

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Question of the Day

What's the Ceiling?

What do I get as the results from this code?

SELECT CEILING (999.999), CEILING (-999.999);

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