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

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

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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

4,303 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

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Speaking at the 2011 Carolina Technology Conference

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, I will be speaking at the Carolina Technology Conference in Columbia, SC. I'm scheduled for...

2011-10-14

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A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...

2011-10-13

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Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...

2011-10-13

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Learn to Help Yourself

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I used to work with a guy who was adamant that before you asked him for help, you had done the...

2011-10-11

1,298 reads

PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...

2011-10-10

1,412 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

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...

SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm

By Johan Bijnens

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression...

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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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