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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MVP Award

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Received my notification via email this morning that I've been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. It's been...

2009-01-01

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Joel Spolsky on servant leadership

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...

2008-12-29

1,597 reads

Using the Service Audit Object in SQL Server 2008

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Security

Brian Kelley looks at auditing in this article about SQL Server 2008 and the enhancements made in this version. The new Audit Object allows you to more easily determine what is happening on your SQL Server instance.

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2008-12-18

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Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in October I had the opportunity to work with Andy Warren and do a series of SQL Server security...

2008-12-17

1,393 reads

SQL Quiz Part 2 - Career Challenges

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Another diabolical idea of Chris Shaw. I'm actually late to the game because I got tagged a week ago by...

2008-12-16

980 reads

Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been off-line except for hints here and there for the last couple of weeks due to fighting off an...

2008-12-04

1,070 reads

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...

2008-12-04

852 reads

MSSQLTips.com: Connecting to SQL Server with a Bad Logon Trigger

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Shortly after I gave my presentation Trigger Happy Database Security down in Jacksonville for SQL Saturday #3, I received an...

2008-11-20

849 reads

Midlands PASS December Meeting - Virtualization Everything

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...

2008-11-18

569 reads

Voting for the PASS Board

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I got the email with a Zoomerang survey to vote for the PASS board. All are excellent candidates, but ultimately,...

2008-11-18

927 reads

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Brian Kelley

MVP Award

Joel Spolsky on servant leadership

Using the Service Audit Object in SQL Server 2008

Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line

SQL Quiz Part 2 - Career Challenges

Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything

MSSQLTips.com: Connecting to SQL Server with a Bad Logon Trigger

Midlands PASS December Meeting - Virtualization Everything

Voting for the PASS Board

Blogs

SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes

Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery

SQL Server Quickie #48 – Azure SQL Managed Instance

Forums

Converting job_id to join to another table.

SSMS 20.2 on Windows11 not able to connect to SQL 2005 ??

Agent job security account

Question of the Day

What's the Ceiling?