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

New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA:

In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages...

2010-03-18

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Working for/with High Caliber Folks

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Within a couple of days of each other, both Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) and Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) tweeted about possible job opportunities which would...

2010-03-12

1,865 reads

PASS Summit to Stay in Seattle

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

PASS has released the survey results as well as its decision about where to hold future Summit events. The decision...

2010-03-10

1,989 reads

Upgraded to Model

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

That's right, folks, I'm now a model. Or at least, a model DB. Tom LaRock released his most recent rankings and...

2010-03-10

589 reads

Focus on Your Passion

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Tuesday night I was having a conversation with my younger son, whom we call Turtle. It's a nickname that came...

2010-03-04

1,092 reads

Baby Steps to Learning Something New

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had a really bad habit of trying to jump into the middle of something I didn't know very well,...

2010-03-03

4,817 reads

Personal "Failure" Is Just a Result

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm reading a book by two teens called Do Hard Things. It's a book which represents a rejection of the...

2010-03-02

987 reads

Plan for Failure

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...

2010-02-24

1,024 reads

Quest POTW Webcast on SQL Injection Now Available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back a couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of participating in a Pain of the Week webcast with Kevin...

2010-02-23

1,381 reads

What Does It Look Like When Everything Is Okay?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm a big believer in looking at systems when everything is okay. I'm not the only one, as Joe Richards, a...

2010-02-22

880 reads

Blogs

Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger

I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...

Fighting Procrastination?

By Brian Kelley

Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...

A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit

I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...

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