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

Webcast: Data Modeling Scenarios and Best Practices

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On January 17, 2019, I will be giving a webcast with MSSQLTips on data modeling best practices. It’s scheduled for...

2018-12-28

1,316 reads

Meetings: Have a Point of Focus

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Have you ever been in a meeting where the attendees seemed to go down one rabbit trail after another? At...

2018-11-30 (first published: 2018-11-16)

1,817 reads

Midlands PASS Meetings for January and February 2019

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Midlands PASS won’t be holding a meeting in December. Too much going on! However, we are hosting meetings in January...

2018-11-27

203 reads

Ethics in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft redid its Data Science Track not too long ago and they added several courses and new progress points. One...

2018-11-19 (first published: 2018-11-08)

2,781 reads

How do I ask for SQL Server help on Twitter?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

For those of us who have been on twitter for a long time, we are familiar with the #sqlhelp hashtag....

2018-11-07

288 reads

Free Training: Videos from Tim Mitchell

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I’m always on the looking our excellent training, especially free training. Tim Mitchell, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, (twitter | website) has...

2018-10-29

268 reads

Slides and Scripts from IT/Dev Connections

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you attended either of my presentations for this past IT/Dev Connections, here are the promised slides and scripts.
As I...

2018-10-23

244 reads

Upcoming #SQLChat on Making the Most of Conferences

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This month’s #SQLChat is hosted by Rie Irish (twitter | blog). It’s a timely topic: Making the Most of Conferences. With...

2018-10-22

210 reads

Midlands PASS Reboot!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you’re in or near the Columbia, SC area, we are rebooting the Midlands PASS Chapter. Here is our first...

2018-09-19

624 reads

Rescheduled Performance Troubleshooting Webinar

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

With Hurricane Florence no longer a hurricane, we have rescheduled the webinar for next Wednesday, September 26, 2018.
Free sign up...

2018-09-19

214 reads

Blogs

The Benefits of Teaching

By Brian Kelley

Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...

Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!

By DataOnWheels

I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...

The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says

This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...

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Forums

Deny Connect problem

By Brandie Tarvin

I have a login I need to deny connect to on a server, but...

Website Stability 2025/12/05

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...

403 Forbidden

I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...

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Question of the Day

Fabric Mirroring

In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?

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