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 Server MVP Andy Leonard on .NET Rocks!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard is on the latest edition of .NET Rocks! If you're not familiar with .NET Rocks!,...

2008-02-01

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The Importance of Verifying Database Backups Regularly

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yesterday, as I was pulling into my driveway, my front left tire gave. Thankfully, I was going really slow and...

2008-01-31

1,666 reads

A Long Overdue Database Security Rant

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been dealing with a security product from a security company in recent days that breaks best practices with respect...

2008-01-30

2,305 reads

First Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Comic

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft and Seagate have partnered togethered to put together an IT Heroes comic (daily even). The first one is here:
...

2008-01-29

1,562 reads

Ken Henderson has passed away

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know I'm not the first in the SQL Server community to post this, but Ken Henderson has passed away...

2008-01-29

1,919 reads

Part II of Troubleshooting Memory Issues

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Windows Server Performance Team has published part 2 of troubleshooting memory issues.
This one covers excessive paging and memory...

2008-01-29

1,681 reads

Citrix Presentation Server Becomes XenApp

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Citrix is changing the name of its flagship product from Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) to XenApp. More from the blogosphere:
Citrix...

2008-01-28

1,999 reads

Metasploit 3.1 is out

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The new version of Metasploit is out. Included is a GUI interface. It's a complete re-write in Ruby (note to...

2008-01-28

1,518 reads

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Deployment Guides available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw this first on Aaron Stebner's blog:
.NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN
Guidance information for both...

2008-01-28

1,571 reads

Microsoft Security Webcast

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This one is geared towards IT management:
IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 4 of 5): Identity and Access...

2008-01-28

1,652 reads

Blogs

Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents

By Eduardo Pivaral

A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...

Car Update: August 2026

It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...

Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To

An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...

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Question of the Day

Backing Up a DMK

In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?

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