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

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Added reviews to my website

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been thinking about doing this for a whole and I finally got
around to building a reviews section into the...

2006-02-08

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You have just executed the command CREATE MASTER...

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral

Security

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2006-01-30

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Teaching 3rd Graders binary numbers?!?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is just neat. I saw the link in a post on Tess Ferrandez's blog.
She's an escalation engineer with Microsoft...

2006-01-27

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Forums for Atadore's PromptSQL

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Atadore has opened up forums for support and feature requests of its
PromptSQL tool. You can find them on the PromptSQL...

2006-01-26

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The Greatest Trick

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In reading Gianpaolo Carraro's blog I came across this entry: The architect greatest trick?!

In it he's talking about having seen...

2006-01-26

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PromptSQL Review

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had the opportunity recently to take a look at PromptSQL and offer a
review on it. That review hit SSC.com's...

2006-01-18

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PromptSQL Review

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Product and Book Reviews

Do you want intellisense for Query Analyzer? Many people would love this amazing enhancement that has long been available for Visual Studio users. It is now available as an add-in from PromptSQL and Brian Kelley reviews this amazing product.