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

Get a Better Understanding of How Queries Execute

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was catching up on my blog reading (unfortunately, in some cases I'm
a month behind) and came across a link...

2006-07-14

1,455 reads

New KB Article on SQL Server 2005 File Growth Bug

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There is are two new KB articles on how the file growth value can become abnormally large. You can find...

2006-07-13

1,617 reads

A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Found this link on one of the security mailing lists I peruse. You can find an archive of the original...

2006-07-11

1,397 reads

New KB Article on Remote Mirroring Support Requirements

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft has published a new Knowledge Base article on the
requirements to receive support for what is known as remote mirroring.

Requirements...

2006-07-07

1,715 reads

New Article on SQL Server 2005 Logins

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I wrote a new article for SQL Server Central on SQL Server 2005 Logins. It covers the basics. This is...

2006-07-05

1,398 reads

Microsoft Office 2007 Delayed

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It looks like Microsoft Office 2007 will be delayed due to performance
issues. It was supposed to release in conjunction with...

2006-06-29

1,358 reads

Idera SQL Check updated for SQL Server 2005

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Idera's SQL Check
has been updated to support SQL Server 2005. SQL Check is a free
performance monitoring tool, not anywhere near...

2006-06-28

1,545 reads

WinFS rolled into next version of SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A blog posting from the WinFS team
caught me a bit by surprise today. Apparently I wasn't the only one,
judging by...

2006-06-27

1,544 reads

Top 100 Network Security Tools

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a bit dated (it came out last week), but here is the list of
the top 100 network security...

2006-06-26

1,448 reads

Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Local Chapter in Columbia, SC

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We are starting up efforts again to try and get a local PASS
chapter based in the Columbia, SC area. If...

2006-06-23

1,378 reads

Blogs

A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

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Forums

Case part is sloooooow

Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...

Why the following cmds in sequence do not work

By hoa.nguyen 64423

I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...

When SQL Server Central Went Down

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')

Assume preview features are enabled.

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