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

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Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

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Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

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I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

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I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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Blocking question

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Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...

can I monitor auto stats updates through extended events?

By Eric Mamet

We have pretty big tables very sensitive to stats with many updates. Our systems...

SSIS upgrade

By Sailor

I have about 40 packages that are dtsx files that were created with SQL...

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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