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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Crypt Packages for Perl

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...

2005-12-16

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Missing some folks

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In a community the size of SQL Server Central, it's natural for people
to come and go, especially with contributions to...

2005-12-15

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Which of the following commands would give the...

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral

Security

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2005-12-14

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Simple script to show what drives all databases are on

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Had a need for this the other day. We just needed a quick dump of which
drives each database was using....

2005-12-09

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SQL Server 2000 SP 3: What's New in Security

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Service Packs

Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2000 is huge. There are significant changes in it and they apply to all three products: the core SQL Server, MSDE, and Analysis Services. Because there are so many changes, this first article in the series will only focus on the security changes.