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

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What Does Redgate Test Data Manager Do?

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Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format

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(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks...

Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric

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some questions related to Ola hallengren maintenance scripts

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Hi All, I have couple questions related to Ola Hallengren's maintenance script. If anyone...

How to Alert When SQL Queries Exceed a Time Limit During Execution?

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I've been exploring various methods to monitor and alert for long-running queries in SQL...

3rd Friday of the Month

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Hi everyone I need to find the last business of the week.  In most...

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