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

You Are Responsible for You

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Steve Jones wrote an editorial yesterday called The Poor Soul. It talked about being thrown into a responsibility one didn't...

2011-05-12

735 reads

Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Inevitably, even if we work for ourselves, we get frustrated with our workplace. This is true of all aspects of...

2011-05-11

3,031 reads

Vote for My PASS Summit Sessions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yes, this is absolutely a shameless post for self-promotion. However, since potential attendees get to offer input into what sessions...

2011-05-11

955 reads

Know Your Limits

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A little over a week ago I roughed up my back moving sound equipment after a ministry event. I have...

2011-05-10

1,711 reads

I Won't Be at SQL Rally

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I am excited about the SQL Rally event that's coming up next week. However, I won't be there. I've been...

2011-05-05

863 reads

My PASS Summit Submissions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Following Andy Leonard's (blog | twitter) footsteps, here are my PASS Summit submissions. I decided to go a little different this...

2011-05-05

788 reads

Outlook Productivity Tricks

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook. It's the required email client at work and because it interfaces with so...

2011-05-05

2,103 reads

Writing Better Emails

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In January 2009, I made the transition back to being a senior DBA. One of the first things my manager...

2011-05-04

2,929 reads

How often do you check email?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you read the experts, most folks check their emails too many times during the day. Today, while giving a...

2011-05-03

794 reads

Love What You Do

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been dealing with illness the last few weeks, probably due to the rather heavy pollen season here in South...

2011-04-29

1,543 reads

Blogs

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

By Vinay Thakur

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

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...

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Forums

Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI

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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

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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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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