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

Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...

2007-04-15

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New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...

2007-04-11

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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

2007-04-11

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Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

2007-04-10

1,444 reads

Help Johnny, Help Kids

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...

2007-04-09

1,511 reads

Microsoft CRM Security Internals

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.

CRM is...

2007-04-09

1,637 reads

More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....

2007-04-09

1,371 reads

How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.

...

2007-04-07

1,500 reads

SQL Server Samples on CodePlex

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...

2007-04-06

1,416 reads

Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...

2007-04-06

1,654 reads

Blogs

Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude

Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...

Getting Your Data GenAI-Ready: The Next Stage of Data Maturity

I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...

Learn Better: Pause to Review More

By Brian Kelley

If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.

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The Long Name

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The Long Name

I run this code to create a table: Create table with unicode name When I check the length, I get these results: Table with length of name shown as 132 characters A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?

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