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

Haidong Ji blogs on a tip for learning Perl

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Haidong Ji, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, blogged on Learning Perl using the Perl Debugger. Haidong posts...

2006-07-27

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Interview with Craig Mundie on Channel 9

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Channel 9 has posted a 25 minute interview with Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft. You can...

2006-07-27

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New SQL Server 2005 Books Online download available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As reported in several other places... there is a new Books Online (July 2006) for SQL Server 2005. You can...

2006-07-25

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Before you submit that incident to Microsoft...

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Check out this post:

Things to consider before submitting an incident to Microsoft

Getting the information together before you make that phone...

2006-07-20

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Presenting at Columbia, SC DotNet User Group

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'll be presenting at the DotNet Columbia SC User Group on August 8th.
My presentation is tentatively titled, "Something old, something...

2006-07-20

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The Plumbing Behind MSDN 2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There is a very interesting article about how MSDN 2 utilizes SQL
Server 2005 technologies, specifically Service Broker and CLR
integration. The...

2006-07-20

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Free Data Models

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I saw this on a Channel 9 forum thread:

Library of Free Data Models

There are quite a few starter data models...

2006-07-19

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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

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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

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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

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Blogs

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...

Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides

Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...

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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

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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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