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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SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes

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Converting job_id to join to another table.

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I need help, please! I have a monitoring table that pulls in information about...

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

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We still have a couple of dino's. What should I check to re-enable access...

Agent job security account

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Hi All, I have few sql server agent scheduled jobs which are supposed to...

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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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