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

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

1,276 reads

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

1,350 reads

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

1,133 reads

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

1,706 reads

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

2,116 reads

Don't Use Passwords That Can Be Social-Engineered

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A Facebook thread by one of my friends brought this one to mind. He was asking about what the current...

2012-08-09

1,948 reads

Learn to Use Books Online

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the first questions I hear from folks wanting to grow in their Microsoft SQL Server DBA or database developer...

2012-08-06

2,088 reads

Stop Storing Unencrypted Passwords!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was called over today by a person doing application support to help troubleshoot a database connectivity issue. This isn't a...

2012-07-30 (first published: 2012-07-26)

2,744 reads

Cross-Post: Set Milestones for Little Victories

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This seemed appropriate to cross-post from Goal Keeping DBA given the editorial for today:
One of the first pieces of advice...

2012-07-25

1,092 reads

Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meeting tonight

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're in or around the Midlands of South Carolina area, the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild meets the 2nd Wednesday...

2012-07-11

953 reads

Blogs

2025 Wrapped for Steve

I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

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Forums

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The state-of-the-art FARE Labs Environmental Testing Laboratory provides a broad range of testing services...

Database security permissions save script

By Srinivas Merugu

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Database security permissions save script

Database backup job steps

I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...

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Question of the Day

The Large Encoded Value

I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?

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