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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SQL Injection Webcast on November 5, 2013

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On November 5th, in conjunction with MSSQLTips, I'll be giving a webinar on SQL Injection. It will be at 2...

2013-11-01 (first published: 2013-10-29)

3,740 reads

Free Online SQL Server Training for the Week of November 3, 2013

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm trying to re-establish this running guide to free online training for the following week. If you're a training provider...

2013-10-31

3,372 reads

Review: SQL Server Transaction Log Management

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Book Details:
SQL Server Transaction Log Management
Davis, Tony and Shaw, Gail
Simple Talk Publishing, October 2012.
Free PDF download

Do I Recommend This Book?
Yes,...

2013-10-28

2,904 reads

Architecture Reasons for Putting BLOBs in the Database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was participating in a Twitter Chat looking at what suggestions and recommendations for developer on how to make the...

2013-10-24

5,048 reads

Speaking Twice on Oct 1, 2013

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Carolina Technology Conference:
To start things off, I'll be speaking in the morning at the Carolina Technology Conference. I have a...

2013-09-30

2,817 reads

Installing SQL Server 2008 on a machine with .NET Framework 4.0? Read this.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The SQL Server Premier Field Engineer blog has a post about an issue with installing SQL Server 2008 on a...

2013-09-23

2,071 reads

PASS BoD: I'm voting for Allen Kinsel

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There are some very good names up for this year's PASS Board of Directors. However, I wanted to write a...

2013-09-23

2,387 reads

Don't Rush When It Comes to Privacy Data

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Dataloss list sent the following article through yesterday afternoon:

Obamacare Employee Accidentally Sends Out 2,400 Social Security Numbers

This is concerning,...

2013-09-17

2,228 reads