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

Hadn't written in a bit - that should improve again

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been swarmed under at work and with migraines. That should change over the weekend (the swarmed under... migraines come...

2008-03-13

610 reads

Changing the Command Prompt

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I spend a lot of time at the command prompt and to be perfectly honest, I'm tired of looking at:
...

2008-02-20

1,751 reads

Errata for SQL Server Certification Books

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in this blog post, I indicated which books I was using to complete the MCITP certifications for SQL Server....

2008-02-19

1,734 reads

Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals DVD

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I did end up pre-ordering the first DVD on SQL Server internals by SQL Server MVP and SQL Server internals...

2008-02-11

1,363 reads

The Right Font

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was doing some development on my laptop tonight and I was getting fed up with the default font, Courier...

2008-02-09

3,624 reads

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting this Thursday, February 7, 2008

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Midlands PASS Chapter is pleased to announce our own Paul Shearer and Bill Stevenson as our speakers for our...

2008-02-05

626 reads

Preparing for SQL Server 2005 Certification

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I never did complete my MCDBA. As I was preparing to, I transitioned to my systems architect role, meaning I...

2008-02-05

3,194 reads

New SQL Server book on Disaster Recovery

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

James Luetkehoelter has announced his book on SQL Server Disaster Recovery is complete. It is published by aPress and due...

2008-02-04

900 reads

Windows Server 2008 RTMs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a small surprise, mainly because it looked like only Visual Studio 2008 was actually going to make the...

2008-02-04

611 reads

Ask for SQL Server 2005 SP3

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In case you haven't seen this elsewhere, if you want Microsoft to release SP3 for SQL Server 2005. It's time...

2008-02-03

938 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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Forums

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

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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."

Happy April Fools!

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