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

User Group Giveaway: My Latest Book

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As I annouced earlier, Oracle and database expert, Bert Scalzo and I collaborated on an introductory text appropriately titled Introduction to SQL...

2011-01-26

701 reads

MSSQLTips Kindle Giveaway

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Want a legitimate chance to win an eBook reader like a Kindle? Would having it loaded down with eBooks on...

2011-01-25

821 reads

SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC - Call for Speakers

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We're gearing up the advertising for SQL Saturday #70 since we're about 8 weeks out. In keeping with that, our...

2011-01-24

2,011 reads

The Danger of Agreements

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm speaking in context of Getting Things Done, not a legal or contractual agreement. What brought this up is me...

2011-01-24

789 reads

Free SQL Server Training for the week of January 24, 2011

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We're finally getting a handle on things with the new baby. 🙂 As a result, I've started this weekly accumulation of...

2011-01-21

828 reads

New Book: Introduction to SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Last year, Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) introduced me to Oracle and database expert, Bert Scalzo. Bert was looking to take...

2011-01-19

594 reads

SQL People Events - TED for SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

When I first saw Andy Leonard's post about a new SQL People event, I was intrigued. It's not a training...

2011-01-13

2,497 reads

Technical Goals for 2011

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know I missed out on the massive meme yesterday (T-SQL Tuesday #14), but I blame dealing with the weather...

2011-01-12

793 reads

Re-Awarded MVP for 2011

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...

2011-01-01

778 reads

2010 - A Year without Specific Goals

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In previous years I had set goals and even if I didn't fully achieve them, they were helpful in giving...

2010-12-31

2,097 reads

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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Forums

Issue with CPU Affinity Configuration on a SQL Server VM with 30 vCPUs

By abdalah.mehdoini

Hello , I'm having an issue with a SQL Server VM that has 30...

Giving Thanks

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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...

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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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