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

Top 100 Network Security Tools

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a bit dated (it came out last week), but here is the list of
the top 100 network security...

2006-06-26

1,449 reads

Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Local Chapter in Columbia, SC

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We are starting up efforts again to try and get a local PASS
chapter based in the Columbia, SC area. If...

2006-06-23

1,379 reads

SANS Stay Sharp Course - SEC351: Computer and Network Security Awareness

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A few years ago I took the SANS GIAC Security Essentials Course on-line. Included in it was an attempt at...

2006-06-21

2,140 reads

Whitepaper: SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft has released a whitepaper on SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
(Microsoft Word document). It's 35 pages in length...

2006-06-15

2,053 reads

Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I ran into Brian Knight today on the Expo floor here at TechEd.
It was good to catch up a bit...

2006-06-13

2,329 reads

TechEd - DATTLC01 : Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It's
been a few years since I wrote my eBook on SQL Server performance monitoring
but I still keep a strong interest...

2006-06-12

1,581 reads

In Boston for TechEd

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This will be my first ever TechEd and I'm looking forward to it. I was able to go to the...

2006-06-11

1,492 reads

Two things I wish they'd change about endpoints in SQL Server 2005

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've
been playing around with endpoints in SQL Server 2005 looking at how they can
be used to enhance security for SQL...

2006-05-27

2,144 reads

When It Takes Time...

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw this from Jason Haley's Interesting Finds post for the morning of May 25, 2006:

Project Managing Latency or: How to...

2006-05-25

1,450 reads

Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part II

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In a previous post, Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I,
I pointed to the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article which...

2006-05-24

1,496 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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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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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases

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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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