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

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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

When I came home from work tonight, there waiting on my was my copy of Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008...

2008-11-03

1,159 reads

Auditing for Blank Passwords

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Auditing blank passwords in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 proves a bit more challenging than in SQL Server 2000. In...

2008-11-01

1,227 reads

Miramar User Group and SQL Saturday Presentations

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Here are the two presentations from last week. On Thursday I went to Miramar, Florida and presented Fortress SQL Server....

2008-10-27

1,560 reads

Out of Band Security Bulletin Release for Microsoft Windows

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft tries to stick with the second Tuesday for security bulletin releases and has only released out-of-band a handful of...

2008-10-23

1,506 reads

"The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with."

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know, another non-technical blog post. But this one is career-related as well.
In high school I was introduced to...

2008-10-20

1,332 reads

"To Lead Is To Follow"

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first ran across these words as a Citadel cadet. Now those who know of my days at El Cid...

2008-10-19

819 reads

Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have two speaking engagements for the week of October 19:
South Florida SQL Server User Group - West Palm Beach - October...

2008-10-18

689 reads

Red Gate SQL Response Review is up

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Full Disclosure: I did receive a trial version of the software and payment for the review. I am also a...

2008-10-08

950 reads

SQL Response Review - New SQL Server Monitoring Tool

by Brian Kelley

Redgate

SQL Response

Red Gate's SQL Response is advertised as a low-impact SQL Server monitoring application with an intuitive interface. Given the advertising, I signed up for the SQL Response Release Candidate and took a look. I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.

2008-10-08

4,781 reads

Discuss

What I'm Reading (5 Oct 2008)

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Technical:Counter Hack Reloadedby Ed Skoudis with Tom Liston
It's a security book and I'm rather late getting a review of it...

2008-10-05

721 reads

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Brian Kelley

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

Auditing for Blank Passwords

Miramar User Group and SQL Saturday Presentations

Out of Band Security Bulletin Release for Microsoft Windows

"The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with."

"To Lead Is To Follow"

Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando

Red Gate SQL Response Review is up

SQL Response Review - New SQL Server Monitoring Tool

What I'm Reading (5 Oct 2008)

Blogs

Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

How to Set Up SQL Server 2025, Ollama and NGINX in Docker Without the Headaches

Forums

Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

Testing, testing, please ignore.

Connecting to SQL express 2019 server

Question of the Day

Striped Backup File Limits