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

New KB Article on Remote Mirroring Support Requirements

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft has published a new Knowledge Base article on the
requirements to receive support for what is known as remote mirroring.

Requirements...

2006-07-07

1,710 reads

New Article on SQL Server 2005 Logins

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I wrote a new article for SQL Server Central on SQL Server 2005 Logins. It covers the basics. This is...

2006-07-05

1,394 reads

Microsoft Office 2007 Delayed

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It looks like Microsoft Office 2007 will be delayed due to performance
issues. It was supposed to release in conjunction with...

2006-06-29

1,350 reads

Idera SQL Check updated for SQL Server 2005

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Idera's SQL Check
has been updated to support SQL Server 2005. SQL Check is a free
performance monitoring tool, not anywhere near...

2006-06-28

1,533 reads

WinFS rolled into next version of SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A blog posting from the WinFS team
caught me a bit by surprise today. Apparently I wasn't the only one,
judging by...

2006-06-27

1,535 reads

Top 100 Network Security Tools

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a bit dated (it came out last week), but here is the list of
the top 100 network security...

2006-06-26

1,447 reads

Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Local Chapter in Columbia, SC

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We are starting up efforts again to try and get a local PASS
chapter based in the Columbia, SC area. If...

2006-06-23

1,374 reads

SANS Stay Sharp Course - SEC351: Computer and Network Security Awareness

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A few years ago I took the SANS GIAC Security Essentials Course on-line. Included in it was an attempt at...

2006-06-21

2,134 reads

Whitepaper: SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft has released a whitepaper on SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
(Microsoft Word document). It's 35 pages in length...

2006-06-15

2,041 reads

Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I ran into Brian Knight today on the Expo floor here at TechEd.
It was good to catch up a bit...

2006-06-13

2,308 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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