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

PASS ProfDev VC presentation recording available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back on August 15th I did a webinar for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter on my talk Being the...

2012-09-10

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An important query to remember

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is based on a post with respect to where our focus and efforts should be that I wrote at...

2012-08-30

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Resources for Those Dealing with Security Patches

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It's been a while since I was in the day-to-day business of security patches. However, I still keep up with...

2012-08-24 (first published: 2012-08-21)

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Don't Disconnect Your Common Sense

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This falls in line with a previous post about common sense in IT.
I was having lunch with a co-worker,...

2012-08-23

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Rant: Applying Common Sense in IT

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was watching a training video last night and the instructor made the statement we hear all the time:
"Test this...

2012-08-23 (first published: 2012-08-17)

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Delaying AV Definitions?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Auto-deploying AV definitions has become common place throughout the industry. However, this post from the SANS Internet Storm Center raises the...

2012-08-21

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PowerShell Saturday in Charlotte, NC

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you are in or around the Charlotte, NC area, there is a PowerShell Saturday coming your way on September...

2012-08-15

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Speaking Tomorrow for Professional Development VC

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As I blogged about previously, tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will...

2012-08-14

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Audit Yourself Regularly

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Around April this year, my men's accountability group was talking about a shared pain: income taxes. We were all worried...

2012-08-13

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Speaking for PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This coming Wednesday I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will be on my...

2012-08-10

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Blogs

Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit

By Brian Kelley

I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...

How to Set Up SQL Server 2025, Ollama and NGINX in Docker Without the Headaches

By MarlonRibunal

Ollama SQL FastStart kit just works out of the box. It makes it easy...

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Forums

Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

Cloud Performance Considerations

How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...

Testing, testing, please ignore.

By edwardcasbon-nickname

This is a test, please ignore.

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Striped Backup File Limits

In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?

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