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

T-SQL Tuesday/Wednesday #21: A Crappy Workaround

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...

2011-08-10

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Functionality and User Experience are important, too

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...

2011-08-09

818 reads

Security Is Your Responsibility

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...

2011-08-08

958 reads

MSSQLTips.com Kindle Contest

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...

2011-08-04

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Rant: Security Isn't Sexy and It's a Shame

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I grew up immersed in security. My father was a US Marine and going on and off base meant... security....

2011-08-03

1,232 reads

Bad Network Performance? Check the TCP Chimney Offload/Receive Side-Scaling/Network DMA Settings

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We recently ran into a case where connecting to a Windows Server 2003 server with SQL Server installed on it,...

2011-08-02

15,673 reads

Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-28

2,180 reads

Bad Admins: Taking Advantage of Maintenance Periods

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-25

1,061 reads

Bad Admins: Stealing the SQL Server Service Account

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-22

1,374 reads

Bad Admins: Pocketing Backups

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-21

731 reads

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...

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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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