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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Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container

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In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...

Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code

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Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...

Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server

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Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....

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PowerBI Question - Data Sources

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I don't see a PowerBI forum, so I'm posting here. I have a need...

SQL Server Certificates

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Connect an Azure Function to Azure SQL database Using a Managed Identity

By Kunal Rathi

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SQL Server Certificates

Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?

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