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

Presenting Tomorrow (Thursday) via Webinar - SQL Server Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have the privilege of being able to give a webinar tomorrow, November 3, at 11 AM EDT. It will...

2011-11-02

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Understanding Kerberos, Part III

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Welcome back to both our Kerberos coverage and to another topic for SQL University's Security and Auditing Week. In today's...

2011-10-28

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Webinar on SQL Server Security on November 3, 2011

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have the privilege of being able to give a webinar next Thursday, November 3, at 11 AM EDT. It...

2011-10-28

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SQL University: SQL Agent Jobs That Run at SQL Agent Start

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Welcome to Security week at SQL University. I apologize for the late start. However, if you want to do some...

2011-10-27

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Understanding Kerberos, Part II

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The majority of the time, the problems I see with Kerberos are due to a bad SPN (Service Principal Name)...

2011-10-18

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Understanding Kerberos, Part I

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A get a lot of questions where I work about Kerberos and how it works for SQL Server, whether we're...

2011-10-17

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Cloud? Chotto Matte Kudasai.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're not familiar with Chotto matte kudasai, it means "A moment, please," in Japanese. The cloud is big news....

2011-10-14

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Speaking at the 2011 Carolina Technology Conference

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, I will be speaking at the Carolina Technology Conference in Columbia, SC. I'm scheduled for...

2011-10-14

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A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...

2011-10-13

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Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...

2011-10-13

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Blogs

How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide

By Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...

Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle

The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...

A New Word: Mornden

mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...

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What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?

Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...

Blob Storage automated downloads

By Brandie Tarvin

Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...

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Question of the Day

Running Steve's Code

Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?

CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
    
        SELECT Consumer_ID ,
               Trend_Category ,
               Bit_Trace
        FROM    NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
    
GO

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