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

Volunteering

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've spent my spare time the last few weekends helping a non-profit called Fast Forward here in the Columbia, SC...

2007-05-21

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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Our next
meeting will be on Thursday, May
3rd, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our
gracious host....

2007-05-03

1,556 reads

Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...

2007-04-23

1,591 reads

Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...

2007-04-16

1,772 reads

Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...

2007-04-15

1,605 reads

New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...

2007-04-11

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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

2007-04-11

1,433 reads

Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

2007-04-10

1,444 reads

Help Johnny, Help Kids

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...

2007-04-09

1,511 reads

Microsoft CRM Security Internals

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.

CRM is...

2007-04-09

1,637 reads

Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...

Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...

Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information

By Brian Kelley

For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...

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Forums

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is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...

Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column

Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...

any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp

hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...

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Question of the Day

What is the PRODUCT

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?

CREATE TABLE Numbers
( n INT)
GO
INSERT dbo.Numbers
(
n
)
VALUES
(1), (2), (3)
GO
SELECT PRODUCT(n)
FROM dbo.Numbers

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