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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Microsoft Solution Accelerators on TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was browsing through the new titles that are on Safari and saw some planning guides around Windows Server 2008...

2009-01-15

833 reads

More About Twitter

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've mentioned before that I was on Twitter and I know that for some the question is still out on...

2009-01-12

928 reads

MySQL GUI Tools

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This came up on Twitter today. I have a search set for "SQL Server" and it pulled up someone who...

2009-01-09

954 reads

Windows Server 2008 R2 Core supports SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

First saw this because Jason Massietwittered about it. But apparently there are enough bits of the .NET Framework in R2...

2009-01-09

1,276 reads

Organizing RSS Feeds

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have a lot of blogs I subscribe to. Well over 500 at last count. And the truth of the...

2009-01-07

733 reads

MVP Award

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Received my notification via email this morning that I've been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. It's been...

2009-01-01

744 reads

Joel Spolsky on servant leadership

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...

2008-12-29

1,626 reads

Using the Service Audit Object in SQL Server 2008

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Security

Brian Kelley looks at auditing in this article about SQL Server 2008 and the enhancements made in this version. The new Audit Object allows you to more easily determine what is happening on your SQL Server instance.