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

Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...

2011-06-16

1,887 reads

Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The emails came in today and 2 out of 4 of my sessions were selected. Both are the ones I...

2011-06-15

891 reads

Planning Your Upgrade Well

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...

2011-06-07

966 reads

The Importance of a Business Recovery Plan

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Recently I was in one of those chain restaurants (the middle-priced, sit-down types) and shortly after we got there, we...

2011-06-06

1,895 reads

Re-Focusing the Blog a Bit

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In recent weeks I've strayed pretty much all over the map with respect to topics. I have another blog, the...

2011-06-01

735 reads

Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As an infrastructure type person, I typically represent a "shared" resource. What that means is I'm not dedicated to just...

2011-05-13

18,826 reads

You Are Responsible for You

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Steve Jones wrote an editorial yesterday called The Poor Soul. It talked about being thrown into a responsibility one didn't...

2011-05-12

734 reads

Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Inevitably, even if we work for ourselves, we get frustrated with our workplace. This is true of all aspects of...

2011-05-11

3,029 reads

Vote for My PASS Summit Sessions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yes, this is absolutely a shameless post for self-promotion. However, since potential attendees get to offer input into what sessions...

2011-05-11

954 reads

Know Your Limits

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A little over a week ago I roughed up my back moving sound equipment after a ministry event. I have...

2011-05-10

1,710 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

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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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