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

Guidance on Microsoft Certified Architect Submissions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

For those considering the Microsoft Certified Architect program, some guidance on what to submit as documentation has been posted to...

2006-12-05

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Excellent post on encryption

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Laurentiu Cristofor has an excellent blog post, Who needs encryption?, which presents some point blank facts about encryption and the...

2006-12-01

1,645 reads

Professional Association of SQL Server - Midlands Chapter First Meeting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you are in South Carolina or a nearby location (Charlotte, Augusta, etc.) and are interested in participating in an...

2006-12-01

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TechEd 2007 tracks announced

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Microsoft TechEd tracks have been released early here:

Sneak Peak at the 2007 Tracks

For those who are interested in attending...

2006-12-01

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ApexSQL SQL Server VIP/MVP Offer

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

ApexSQL has an offer to anyone who is a SQL Server MVP or VIP for a gratuity of their ApexSQL...

2006-11-29

1,741 reads

Measuring pi by throwing frozen hot dogs?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I saw this today on my Google front page under the How To section:

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen...

2006-11-29

1,625 reads

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 Released

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you aren't familiar with Network Monitor, it's a packet sniffer that's a Windows component on the server builds (Control...

2006-11-29

1,591 reads

SysInternals now on Microsoft TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link as his old...

2006-11-27

1,684 reads

NGSSoftware compares Oracle and SQL Server security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first saw this at SQL Server MVP Jasper Smith's blog post Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft:

NGSSoftware...

2006-11-25

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Teaching Children to Program

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the blogs I follow is Andrew Coates' blog over at MSDN. He has posted about starting to help...

2006-11-21

1,456 reads

Blogs

Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server

By Anthony Nocentino

I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...

Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM

I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...

Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?

For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...

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A question about how to store the address in the database

I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...

SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component

Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...

T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...

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Question of the Day

Multiple Sequence Values

How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?

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