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

No SQL Saturday - Columbia, SC in 2012

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Last week my partner in crime, Bobby Dimmick (blog | twitter) and I sat down for lunch and caught up and...

2011-11-14

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SQL Server security webinar now available on-demand

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Last week I was able to give a SQL Server security webinar with Quest Software and SQL Server MVP Kevin...

2011-11-08

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Meme Monday: #SQLFamily

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Tom asks what #SQLFamily means to me. This is a hard one, not because of what #SQLFamily does for me,...

2011-11-07

1,720 reads

Presenting Tomorrow (Thursday) via Webinar - SQL Server Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have the privilege of being able to give a webinar tomorrow, November 3, at 11 AM EDT. It will...

2011-11-02

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Understanding Kerberos, Part III

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Welcome back to both our Kerberos coverage and to another topic for SQL University's Security and Auditing Week. In today's...

2011-10-28

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Webinar on SQL Server Security on November 3, 2011

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have the privilege of being able to give a webinar next Thursday, November 3, at 11 AM EDT. It...

2011-10-28

1,004 reads

SQL University: SQL Agent Jobs That Run at SQL Agent Start

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Welcome to Security week at SQL University. I apologize for the late start. However, if you want to do some...

2011-10-27

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Understanding Kerberos, Part II

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The majority of the time, the problems I see with Kerberos are due to a bad SPN (Service Principal Name)...

2011-10-18

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Understanding Kerberos, Part I

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A get a lot of questions where I work about Kerberos and how it works for SQL Server, whether we're...

2011-10-17

4,289 reads

Cloud? Chotto Matte Kudasai.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're not familiar with Chotto matte kudasai, it means "A moment, please," in Japanese. The cloud is big news....

2011-10-14

1,204 reads

Blogs

Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely

By Peter Skoglund

Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...

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...

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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...

Are topic notifications working?

By Edward Casbon

This is a topic to test whether reply notifications are working or not.

Connecting ERP system E2 and Extract Data , perform Transformation

Hello, May someone please help me how can I pull data from ERP named...

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