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

Learn to Use Books Online

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the first questions I hear from folks wanting to grow in their Microsoft SQL Server DBA or database developer...

2012-08-06

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Stop Storing Unencrypted Passwords!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was called over today by a person doing application support to help troubleshoot a database connectivity issue. This isn't a...

2012-07-30 (first published: 2012-07-26)

2,745 reads

Cross-Post: Set Milestones for Little Victories

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This seemed appropriate to cross-post from Goal Keeping DBA given the editorial for today:
One of the first pieces of advice...

2012-07-25

1,093 reads

Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meeting tonight

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're in or around the Midlands of South Carolina area, the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meets the 2nd Wednesday...

2012-07-11

953 reads

Sorry, Mikko, the box was already open

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In a blog post F-Secure's Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), indicated that with the US participating in cyberattacks...

2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)

2,386 reads

A Busy Week of Speaking

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm hitting 3 venues in 5 days giving 4 different talks. If you plan on making one of these, I'd...

2012-06-07

1,050 reads

After August, I'm Done Traveling for the Year

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I mentioned in a post over at my Goal Keeping DBA blog that I was not planning to attend the...

2012-05-31

2,109 reads

We Need More Folks in Technology, Period.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I took my boys to a game design workshop on Saturday that was sponsored and put on by an organization...

2012-05-14

1,280 reads

One Week from SQLRally!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQLRally is a week away (pre-cons start on Tuesday, conference starts on Thursday). I have the privilege of two sessions to...

2012-05-02

846 reads

Updated Thoughts on Antivirus on SQL Servers

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I hate running antivirus on SQL Servers. I agree antivirus is a necessary evil on most systems, but I don't...

2012-04-30 (first published: 2012-04-24)

5,828 reads

Blogs

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

By Vinay Thakur

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

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...

ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel

By Koen Verbeeck

A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...

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Dynamic Unpivot

I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...

Writing as an Art and a Job

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String Similarity II

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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