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

Haidong Ji blogs on a tip for learning Perl

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Haidong Ji, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, blogged on Learning Perl using the Perl Debugger. Haidong posts...

2006-07-27

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Interview with Craig Mundie on Channel 9

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Channel 9 has posted a 25 minute interview with Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft. You can...

2006-07-27

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New SQL Server 2005 Books Online download available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As reported in several other places... there is a new Books Online (July 2006) for SQL Server 2005. You can...

2006-07-25

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Before you submit that incident to Microsoft...

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Check out this post:

Things to consider before submitting an incident to Microsoft

Getting the information together before you make that phone...

2006-07-20

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Presenting at Columbia, SC DotNet User Group

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'll be presenting at the DotNet Columbia SC User Group on August 8th.
My presentation is tentatively titled, "Something old, something...

2006-07-20

1,631 reads

The Plumbing Behind MSDN 2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There is a very interesting article about how MSDN 2 utilizes SQL
Server 2005 technologies, specifically Service Broker and CLR
integration. The...

2006-07-20

1,513 reads

Free Data Models

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I saw this on a Channel 9 forum thread:

Library of Free Data Models

There are quite a few starter data models...

2006-07-19

1,909 reads

Get a Better Understanding of How Queries Execute

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was catching up on my blog reading (unfortunately, in some cases I'm
a month behind) and came across a link...

2006-07-14

1,450 reads

New KB Article on SQL Server 2005 File Growth Bug

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There is are two new KB articles on how the file growth value can become abnormally large. You can find...

2006-07-13

1,604 reads

A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Found this link on one of the security mailing lists I peruse. You can find an archive of the original...

2006-07-11

1,390 reads

Blogs

Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?

All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...

A New Word: Ochisia

ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...

Create a Numbers Table in Power Query

By Koen Verbeeck

This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...

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Forums

Package to Project model conversion

Hi All, With previous customer range we were always required to work in the...

Issue with DBMail

By richardmgreen1

Hi all We've got 3 servers with the same setup for dbmail. They...

Counting values with hysteresis in Report Builder

Hi, I have a set of data (for instance sine wave) and I need...

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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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