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

Adding value to our organizations

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Sean McCown writes in the latest Database Underground about how DBAs should try and make things better for users of...

2007-01-09

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Most humorous line I've read in a while

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is from Michael Kaplan's blog over at MDSN. He was writing about the power outage that affected the Northwest...

2007-01-07

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Shared Items on Google Reader

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I read through a lot of blogs each day in a variety of technology categories. I've always fashioned myself as...

2007-01-06

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Midlands PASS January 2007 Meeting Minutes

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

January 4,
2007 Meeting Minutes: Members in
Attendance: 15Next Meeting
Date: February 1, 2007 Job
Board: I had a consulting
firm contact me...

2007-01-05

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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for January

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting will be
on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts
facility...

2006-12-29

1,499 reads

Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...

2006-12-29

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How to handle an invalid default database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...

2006-12-11

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Midlands PASS Chapter is official

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...

2006-12-11

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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...

2006-12-09

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SysInternals Tools Updated

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Several SysInternals Tools have been updated. One of the big updates was to the PSTools Suite - now you can pass...

2006-12-09

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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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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search I

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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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