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

SQL Server Security: The Sum of Its Parts

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

When it comes to attacking SQL Server, whether we're talking about the security of an installation or as a piece...

2012-11-05

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Preparing for Certification

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of my goals back when I was a young MCSE (that's Microsoft Certified System Engineer for NT4, not the...

2012-10-22

1,348 reads

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-070 for SSRS

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Today is black Tuesday for October 2012. One security bulletin is specifically for a component of the SQL Server stack:...

2012-10-15 (first published: 2012-10-09)

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MS12-070 - Should I patch more than Reporting Services?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're dealing with a version of SQL Server greater than SQL Server 2000, at this point I'm going to...

2012-10-11

1,980 reads

Slides and Scripts from Idera Auditing SQL Server presentation

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had a few folks ask me for the slides and SQL scripts from the Auditing SQL Server webinar I...

2012-10-10

1,564 reads

Kathi Kellenberger speaking at Midlands PASS

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On October 17th, Midlands PASS will welcome Kathi Kellenberger to speak on T-SQL 2012. Here's what her talk will be...

2012-10-05

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Webcast on SQL Server Auditing on October 9th

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Idera will be re-broadcasting that I recorded earlier in the year on meeting audits with SQL Server. It's scheduled for...

2012-10-04

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Participate in the PASS Election Process

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Once again it is time for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors election. This year there...

2012-09-26

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The Reason I Won't Be at the PASS Summit This Year

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We welcomed daughter #3 and child #5 into this world on Saturday at 9:43 AM. She came a bit earlier...

2012-09-24

1,478 reads

PASS ProfDev VC presentation recording available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back on August 15th I did a webinar for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter on my talk Being the...

2012-09-10

1,131 reads

Blogs

AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases

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Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...

AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

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Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

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