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

Review of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Part 1 of 4

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in First Impressions of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services,
I indicated I felt the book was worth the buy...

2006-05-10

1,449 reads

Excellent article on cracking SQL Server passwords

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The SQLServerAdvisor mailing from SearchSQLServer.com had a link to a
very good article on cracking SQL Server passwords. The article, by
Kevin...

2006-05-09

1,587 reads

Share Your OPML

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Dave Winer announced bringing back Share Your OPML
on Friday. I wasn't keeping up with many RSS feeds back when the
original...

2006-05-08

1,547 reads

Security Awareness for Developers - What would you include?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you were putting together a security awareness training program for
developers, what aspects of SQL Server security would you include?...

2006-05-06

1,834 reads

Going to TechEd 2006 in Boston!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As of right now, it looks like I'm going to TechEd 2006 in Boston. If you're going to be there...

2006-05-05

1,452 reads

Scaling out SQL Server 2005 article

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This article appeared just recently on MSDN:

Scaling Out SQL Server 2005

It's a relatively high level document which covers how to...

2006-05-05

1,533 reads

SysInternals EULA Updated

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The SysInternals licensing has been updated on the SysInternals website.
The new licensing is something you'll want to take a look...

2006-05-05

1,469 reads

PromptSQL purchased by Red Gate Software

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It appears that PromptSQL has been purchased by Red Gate Software. I
haven't seen a news announcement about it, and there's...

2006-05-04

1,518 reads

SQL Server 2005 Books Online (April 2006)

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server 2005 Books Online has been updated for SP1. The newest
version is labeled SQL Server 2005 Books Online (April...

2006-05-04

1,520 reads

SQL Server 2005 Security Overview Webcast - On Demand

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm catching back up on the TechNet webcasts
I found interesting from April. Most are during the day and with
meetings and...

2006-05-01

695 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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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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