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

The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

2007-04-11

1,428 reads

Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

2007-04-10

1,439 reads

Help Johnny, Help Kids

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...

2007-04-09

1,505 reads

Microsoft CRM Security Internals

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.

CRM is...

2007-04-09

1,629 reads

More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....

2007-04-09

1,366 reads

How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.

...

2007-04-07

1,491 reads

SQL Server Samples on CodePlex

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...

2007-04-06

1,407 reads

Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...

2007-04-06

1,643 reads

Updated Website

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
ArticlesReading ListChess Reading List
Nothing fancy or special, but...

2007-03-20

1,335 reads

Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....

2007-03-20

1,487 reads

Blogs

Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery

By Brian Kelley

Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL...

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...

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Forums

Generating (semi-)fake purchase data

I know how to generate fake data (thanks to Jeff Moden's articles!)... the problem...

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...

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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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