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

Good Intro Podcast on Hadoop

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Have you heard about Hadoop but don't know much about it? What about "big data?" Would you like an intro...

2013-09-09 (first published: 2013-09-03)

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Is Microsoft's Certification Program Value Microsoft's Fault?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'd be interested if anyone says, "No," to that question. Gail Shaw raised a few points in this post about...

2013-09-04

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Before Asking for Help...

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have a standard rule that I use before going and bugging a co-worker or posting via social media/message forum about...

2013-08-29

1,879 reads

Specify the Parameter Names for Stored Procedures

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I just ran across a case where a script was failing. Here's the part that's failing:

EXEC sp_addrolemember 'MyDomain\MyGroup', 'SomeRole';
GO
Do...

2013-08-27 (first published: 2013-08-23)

4,490 reads

Schneier's Thoughts on the Future of IT Security and the Impact of the Internet on Power

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you've got an hour to spare, you might want to check out this presentation by Bruce Schneier where he...

2013-08-23 (first published: 2013-08-15)

1,666 reads

Boorish Behavior? No, Worse. Death Threats Against Developers/Designers.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know DBAs and developers have a rocky relationship. However, I don't believe we go as far as some of...

2013-08-16

831 reads

Windows Phone Security Advisory - Weakness in Security Protocol

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're using a Windows phone, versions 7.8 or 8, there is a new security advisory out with respect to...

2013-08-06

625 reads

More on SQL Server Built-In Cryptography Options

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I wrote a series of articles at MSSQLTips.com to cover the cryptographic algorithms that are available with Microsoft SQL Server....

2013-08-02

859 reads

Thank you, Mr. Solomon

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On one of the newsgroups I follow, I received a message that David Solomon will no longer be teaching seminars...

2013-07-30

1,411 reads

Audio and slides are up for my webinar on SQL Server encryption

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The webinar audio and slides/demo scripts are up for the presentation I did for the PASS Security virtual chapter.

PASS Security...

2013-07-19

758 reads

Blogs

Advice I Like: Respect

“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...

Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap

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Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...

Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work

By Eduardo Pivaral

If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...

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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About

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Question of the Day

BIT_COUNT I

In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:

UserID  UserPermissions
15
23
37

What is returned when I run this code:

select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 3;

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