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

Planning Out a Holiday Weekend

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've got a four day weekend thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. After reading Jazz in...

2009-11-24

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Raising a Technology Savvy Daughter

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was introduced to electronics at a very young age. I think I was three when I first started doing...

2009-11-23

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Should DBAs have local administrator rights?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This was actually spurred by a post from Ted Krueger (@onpnt), which led to a short, but hearty, discussion on...

2009-11-20

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Why We Recommend Against xp_cmdshell

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Every so often I see a post in a forum or on Twitter about the use of xp_cmdshell. Usually it is someone looking for...

2009-11-13

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SQL Server Wish: Last Logon Information

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The other day my wife and I were driving around and noticed that a Little Caesar's location had shown up...

2009-11-10

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Always Striving to Improve

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm enjoying a relaxing Saturday morning and I'm doing a bit of reading on ESPN. I see the article about...

2009-11-07

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OFF-TOPIC: Surviving, Missing Folks, Glad I'm Home

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I certainly wish circumstances were different and I would have been able to attend the PASS Summit this week. I...

2009-11-06

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Not Attending/Presenting at SQL Connections

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Given everything that has happened in the last couple of weeks, this is not surprising to those who have kept...

2009-10-31

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OFF-TOPIC: God is Still Good, Even as We Mourn

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Kimberly and I went to the high risk doctor's office this morning for the ultrasound. Unfortunately, they realized very quickly...

2009-10-30

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OFF-TOPIC: More about the pregnancy

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Quite a few folks have commented about my previous post about missing the PASS Summit, whether publicly or in private....

2009-10-29

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Blogs

A New Word: Gnossienne

gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...

Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk

By Mala Mahadevan

How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...

Learning Tool – Deepstash

By Brian Kelley

A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...

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