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

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

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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

1,690 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

1,387 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

1,518 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

1,461 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

1,389 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

1,434 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

1,827 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

719 reads

Visual Studio Team System - Database Professionals: Database Connection Error

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're like me, you don't have SQL Server 2005 sitting on the
default instance because SQL Server 2000 is sitting...

2006-08-06

670 reads

Blogs

Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows

After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...

To refer and to be referred

By Mala Mahadevan

Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...

A New Word: Dorgone

dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...

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Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information

I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...

Make It Routine

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server

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Question of the Day

Negative and Positive Numbers

If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?

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