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

12-inch grass stem?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Those of us in technology are very, very used to automated systems,
batch jobs, etc., all which run without human interaction...

2006-03-29

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Internet Explorer Vulnerability

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're using Internet Explorer, be advised Microsoft has released a
security advisory for Internet Explorer. This would allow an attacker
to...

2006-03-28

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Rights within the database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a follow-on to my post What are the actual rights?

First and foremost, I want to include membership in...

2006-03-14

1,412 reads

What are the actual rights?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the things I've started to work on are some scripts to quickly
be able to pull what a user's...

2006-03-14

1,433 reads

First Impressions of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I received a copy of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
a few weeks back from Kathi. Because of illness and...

2006-03-13

1,474 reads

Tool Updates

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Catching up on recent updates for tools I've looked at and/or recommended.

SQL Server Tools:

PromptSQL is now up to version 1.4....

2006-03-13

1,561 reads

Microsoft MVP Program

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I think anyone who posts actively in the various on-line forums for
Microsoft products (such as SSC.com) hopes one day to...

2006-02-23

1,366 reads

Mavericks don't make it

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the blogs I most enjoy reading is Life Beyond Code.
This blog allows me to take off my technology...

2006-02-18

1,434 reads

My Reading list

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In the tradition of many others, I decided to add a reading list to my professional site. The reading list...

2006-02-16

1,408 reads

Testing, Testing, and More Testing

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been out of pocket and off the forums for the last few weeks as
we've had several major tasks where...

2006-02-15

1,360 reads

Blogs

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...

Create a Numbers Table in Power Query

By Koen Verbeeck

This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...

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Forums

My Father’s Friend’s Experience with Dr. Abdullah Iqbal

By medicalguide

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my father’s friend’s experience with Dr. Abdullah Iqbal,...

Export Data-tier Application vs Generate Script: Why Does SQL Server Have Both?

Hey everyone, SQL Server has two mechanisms for deploying and moving a database to...

How Do You Patch 100 Database Servers?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do You Patch 100...

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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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