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

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

2,749 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

615 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

1,758 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

1,746 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

1,370 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

3,649 reads

Blogs

Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows

After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...

To refer and to be referred

By Mala Mahadevan

Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...

A New Word: Dorgone

dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...

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Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information

I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...

Make It Routine

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server

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Question of the Day

Negative and Positive Numbers

If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?

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