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

SysInternals now on Microsoft TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link as his old...

2006-11-27

1,683 reads

NGSSoftware compares Oracle and SQL Server security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first saw this at SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith's blog post Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft:

NGSSoftware...

2006-11-25

1,703 reads

Teaching Children to Program

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the blogs I follow is Andrew Coates' blog over at MSDN. He has posted about starting to help...

2006-11-21

1,454 reads

Mixed Feelings about the SQL Server Central Sale to Red Gate

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've read numerous posts and several blogs discussing the SQL Server Central sale to Red Gate and at the end...

2006-11-20

1,630 reads

SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP Available for Download

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Community Technology Preview (CTP) version SQL Server 2005 SP2 has been released by Microsoft. You can find the download...

2006-11-08

1,974 reads

Chess

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Recently I started getting back into the game of chess as I began coaching my boys. Chess is a great...

2006-11-02

1,686 reads

Picking back up on blogging

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It has been a trying month to month and a half with the implementation of Microsoft's CRM 3.0 product. By...

2006-10-30

1,372 reads

Diversions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been rather quiet for a while and there's a reason. I've been
helping some friends get a general gaming site...

2006-09-22

1,503 reads

SQL Server 2005 Scripts on TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've not been posting over the last week because I'm in the midst of a
two week vacation, the first I've...

2006-09-01

1,457 reads

Removing SQL Server Express from VS Team System for Database Professionals CTP 5

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As I indicated in my previous post, Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals CTP 5 Out,
if you don't already...

2006-08-24

1,385 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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