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

Preparing for Certification

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of my goals back when I was a young MCSE (that's Microsoft Certified System Engineer for NT4, not the...

2012-10-22

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-070 for SSRS

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Today is black Tuesday for October 2012. One security bulletin is specifically for a component of the SQL Server stack:...

2012-10-15 (first published: 2012-10-09)

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MS12-070 - Should I patch more than Reporting Services?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're dealing with a version of SQL Server greater than SQL Server 2000, at this point I'm going to...

2012-10-11

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Slides and Scripts from Idera Auditing SQL Server presentation

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had a few folks ask me for the slides and SQL scripts from the Auditing SQL Server webinar I...

2012-10-10

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Kathi Kellenberger speaking at Midlands PASS

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On October 17th, Midlands PASS will welcome Kathi Kellenberger to speak on T-SQL 2012. Here's what her talk will be...

2012-10-05

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Webcast on SQL Server Auditing on October 9th

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Idera will be re-broadcasting that I recorded earlier in the year on meeting audits with SQL Server. It's scheduled for...

2012-10-04

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Participate in the PASS Election Process

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Once again it is time for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors election. This year there...

2012-09-26

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The Reason I Won't Be at the PASS Summit This Year

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We welcomed daughter #3 and child #5 into this world on Saturday at 9:43 AM. She came a bit earlier...

2012-09-24

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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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Blogs

From SQL Saturday to Day of Data

A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...

PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters

By Eduardo Pivaral

You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...

A New Word: La Guadière

la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...

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Converting Money

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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file

hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...

PolyBase Trace Flags

Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...

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Question of the Day

Converting Money

Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?

DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY;
SET @YenAmount = ¥1500; 

SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;

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