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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

2,743 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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Blogs

From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework

As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...

“We love to debate minutiae”

By Brian Kelley

I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...

Advice I Like: Knots

Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....

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Forums

how to write this query?

Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...

Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB

Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...

Multiple Deployment Processes

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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