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

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

1,451 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

1,455 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

1,519 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

1,653 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

1,386 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.

...

2007-04-07

1,511 reads

SQL Server Samples on CodePlex

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...

2007-04-06

1,425 reads

Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...

2007-04-06

1,684 reads

Updated Website

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
ArticlesReading ListChess Reading List
Nothing fancy or special, but...

2007-03-20

1,352 reads

Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....

2007-03-20

1,501 reads

Blogs

Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger

I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...

Fighting Procrastination?

By Brian Kelley

Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...

A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit

I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...

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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles

Stairway to DAX and Power BI - Level 29: The DAX Combine & Aggregate Functions

By Bill Pearson

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to DAX and Power...

AI Is Improving Security

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Is Improving Security

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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles

In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?

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