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

New Technique to Steal From Baggage

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first saw this on funsec security discussion list:
Dwarves zipped in
suitcases steal from Swedes

The gist of the story...

2008-01-25

782 reads

Post on Troubleshooting Memory Issues

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Here's a post from the Windows Server Performance Team:
An Overview of Troubleshooting Memory Issues

The post discusses the following issues:
Physical...

2008-01-25

1,185 reads

SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...

2008-01-25

1,641 reads

Two Acquisitions of Note

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL

It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...

2008-01-16

734 reads

Getting Better at Time Management

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...

2008-01-03

639 reads

Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...

2008-01-03

6,196 reads

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...

2007-12-05

550 reads

Honeypots in the Database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...

2007-11-23

2,346 reads

Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...

2007-11-23

1,964 reads

Physical Fitness

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Real life events continue to interfere with my regular posting. However, I would rather deal with them and neglect posting...

2007-11-19

1,568 reads

Blogs

Flyway Tips: AI Generating Migration Script Names

AI is a big deal in 2026, and at Redgate, we’re experimenting with how...

The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done

Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...

Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude

Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...

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Forums

Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON

Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...

The Long Name

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The Long Name

I run this code to create a table: Create table with unicode name When I check the length, I get these results: Table with length of name shown as 132 characters A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?

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