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

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

1,631 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

1,975 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

1,687 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

1,374 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

1,505 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

1,458 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

Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals CTP 5 Out

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you aren't aware, the Visual Studio Team System for Database
Professionals CTP 5 is available for download. It's a significantly
larger...

2006-08-23

1,429 reads

The Importance of Database Coding Standards

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was working with a developer the other day and the question came up
of how to return status from a...

2006-08-17

1,825 reads

Presentation slides and sql scripts up

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have posted the slides for the presentation I gave to the DotNet Columbia User Group.
The talk was called, "Something...

2006-08-09

715 reads

Blogs

Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server

By Anthony Nocentino

I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...

Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM

I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...

Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?

For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...

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A question about how to store the address in the database

I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...

SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component

Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...

T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...

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Multiple Sequence Values

How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?

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