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

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

1,705 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

1,456 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

1,632 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

1,381 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

1,511 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

Blogs

From SQL Saturday to Day of Data

A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...

PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters

By Eduardo Pivaral

You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...

A New Word: La Guadière

la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...

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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file

hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...

PolyBase Trace Flags

Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...

The Data Model Matters

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Question of the Day

Running SQLCMD I

I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:

lcmd -S localhost -E

I then type this (the 1> is the prompt):

1> select @@version go

If I hit enter, what happens?

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