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

Midlands PASS January 2007 Meeting Minutes

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

January 4,
2007 Meeting Minutes: Members in
Attendance: 15Next Meeting
Date: February 1, 2007 Job
Board: I had a consulting
firm contact me...

2007-01-05

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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for January

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting will be
on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts
facility...

2006-12-29

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Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...

2006-12-29

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How to handle an invalid default database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...

2006-12-11

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Midlands PASS Chapter is official

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...

2006-12-11

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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...

2006-12-09

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SysInternals Tools Updated

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Several SysInternals Tools have been updated. One of the big updates was to the PSTools Suite - now you can pass...

2006-12-09

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Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools Available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're like me and rely a lot on the resource kit tools, you may have found that it's relatively...

2006-12-09

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Log Buffer #22: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Welcome to the 22nd edition of Log Buffer, a
weekly compendium of postings and news from database-related blogs across the...

2006-12-08

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Extreme Work

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

"The Productivity Pro" Laura Stack posted in her blog today about jobs where long hours are the norm:

'Extreme' jobs...

2006-12-05

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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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