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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

2,738 reads

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

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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

1,747 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

1,729 reads

Blogs

Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition

By Anthony Nocentino

In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...

Advice I Like: Training Employees

Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...

Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI

I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...

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

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Docker Advice for SQL Server in Production

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DevOps is DevOps

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Striped Backup File Limits

In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?

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