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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Midlands PASS February Meeting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting will be on
Thursday, February 1, 2007, at 6:30 PM.
It'll be at the Training Concepts facility once...

2007-01-30

1,519 reads

Why I ended up getting a Zune

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been looking at getting an MP3 player for a while now because I want to make better use of...

2007-01-27

1,545 reads

Midlands PASS February Meeting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting
will be on Thursday, February 1, 2007, at
6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts facility once...

2007-01-26

1,410 reads

New Review: NGS Software's Typhon III

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I recently had the opportunity to review NGS Software's updated Typhon III general vulnerability scanner. I had previously reviewed it...

2007-01-25

1,736 reads

SQL Server Security: Fixed Database Roles

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Security

Brian is back with a new security article, this time working through the details of the fixed database roles. There are some important concepts here. In particular if you're not totally clear on the difference between dbo and db_owner, read this article.