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

SQL Compare 7 Beta

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Red Gate's schema comparison tool, SQL Compare, is in beta for the newest version, SQL Compare 7. You can find...

2008-04-07

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Jacksonville SQLSaturday less than a month away!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The SQLSaturday in Jacksonville, Florida, will be held May 3, 2008. I'm on track now to give two security based...

2008-04-05

535 reads

SQL Server Forensics Book

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I logged into Safari today to download some chapters I want to be able to review when I'm offline. I...

2008-04-05

1,268 reads

Changing Dynamics on a Project Team

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

MVP Andy Leonard has written a nice post about how the dynamics changed on a project team. Most of it...

2008-04-04

599 reads

Configuring SPN for SQL Server Browser service

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Going through the Microsoft KnowledgeBase updates, I saw this one:
An SPN for the SQL Server Browser service is required when...

2008-04-04

2,496 reads

Installing 5.0.51a MySQL Community Edition on Windows Vista

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm still working on getting all of my tools and apps onto my new laptop, which is running Vista Ultimate....

2008-04-04

2,529 reads

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting - April 3, 2008

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a meeting reminder about our next PASS meeting scheduled for April 3, 2008. It will once again be...

2008-04-01

680 reads

Presenting at Jacksonville SQLSaturday in May

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Looks like my family and I will make the trek down to Jacksonville in May for SQLSaturday. One of my...

2008-04-01

620 reads

Vulnerability announcements coming for Windows products

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm a little late on this one, but Cesar Cerrudo has announced he's going to demonstrate exploits to Windows Server...

2008-04-01

682 reads

Getting Reporting Services to work on Vista

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I recently ordered a new laptop and this one came with Windows Vista Ultimate. I knew about having to install...

2008-03-26

2,744 reads

Blogs

Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up

I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...

Who Are You Doing It For?

By Brian Kelley

But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...

Presenting Twice in May 2026

I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...

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what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater

By rajemessage 14195

can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...

Radius Latitude Longitude

I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...

degree of parallelism

Team, I'm trying to figure out what will be the best recommendation to configure...

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Question of the Day

A Fun Computer Quote

Which movie featured this quote?

"All programs have a desire to be useful."

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