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

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Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

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I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance...

SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes

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A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless)...

Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI

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Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI SQL Server 2025 is an upcoming...

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Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code

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A Strange Result

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Possible SQL 2014 to 2016 Issue - Some Application Functions Slow/Failing

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First time here...hoping I can find some direction and answers so I can devise...

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Question of the Day

A Strange Result

What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019? 

select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';

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