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

Midlands PASS February Meeting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting
will be on Thursday, February 1, 2007, at
6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts facility once...

2007-01-26

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New Review: NGS Software's Typhon III

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I recently had the opportunity to review NGS Software's updated Typhon III general vulnerability scanner. I had previously reviewed it...

2007-01-25

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Adding value to our organizations

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Sean McCown writes in the latest Database Underground about how DBAs should try and make things better for users of...

2007-01-09

1,541 reads

Most humorous line I've read in a while

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is from Michael Kaplan's blog over at MDSN. He was writing about the power outage that affected the Northwest...

2007-01-07

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Shared Items on Google Reader

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I read through a lot of blogs each day in a variety of technology categories. I've always fashioned myself as...

2007-01-06

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Midlands PASS January 2007 Meeting Minutes

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

January 4,
2007 Meeting Minutes: Members in
Attendance: 15Next Meeting
Date: February 1, 2007 Job
Board: I had a consulting
firm contact me...

2007-01-05

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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for January

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next meeting will be
on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts
facility...

2006-12-29

1,502 reads

Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...

2006-12-29

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How to handle an invalid default database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...

2006-12-11

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Midlands PASS Chapter is official

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...

2006-12-11

1,450 reads

Blogs

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

By Brian Kelley

I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...

EightKB 2026

By Andrew Pruski

EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...

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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS

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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database

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Hidden Heroes

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences I

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?

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