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

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

1,593 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

1,781 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

1,606 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

1,729 reads

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

1,434 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

1,445 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

1,512 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

1,638 reads

More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....

2007-04-09

1,373 reads

How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.

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2007-04-07

1,501 reads

Blogs

“We love to debate minutiae”

By Brian Kelley

I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...

Advice I Like: Knots

Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

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how to write this query?

Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...

Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB

Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...

Multiple Deployment Processes

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Question of the Day

Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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