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

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Data Encryption

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Hitting close to home, SC Governor Nikki Haley noted that after the SC Department of Revenue breach was reported, that the IRS didn't...

2013-06-07

5,083 reads

Why Anti-Virus Offers Limited Protection

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Sitting in the first Keynote for the 2013 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference, I was not surprised to hear Kevin...

2013-06-06

1,492 reads

From the 2013 Techno Security Conference - Cloud Computing and Digital Forensics

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm processing through my notes for the 2013 Techno Security Conference, which is finishing up today with post-cons. Of all...

2013-06-05

1,158 reads

Notes from 2013 Techno Security Conference Tuesday Keynote

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There's enough from this morning's 2013 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference to split into multiple blog posts. I'll focus this...

2013-06-04

1,156 reads

SQL Server security webinar series is coming soon!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've gotten in contact with most of the speakers who submitted SQL Server security talks for the PASS Summit. All...

2013-06-04 (first published: 2013-05-30)

2,540 reads

Notes from the First Day of the 2013 Techno Security Conference

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Techno Security & Forensics Security Conference is held in conjunction with the Mobile Forensic Conference each year in Myrtle Beach,...

2013-06-03

1,185 reads

SQL Saturday Charleston!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Finally.... SQL Saturday has come back to... South Carolina! (with apologies to The Rock)

After the last SQL Saturday in Columbia,...

2013-05-30

1,910 reads

Security and SSIS webinar recording available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you missed the webinar Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I presented today or you had technical difficulties, here's the...

2013-05-29

946 reads

SSIS Security Presentation today, May 29th

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I are teaming up to do a security presentation today on SSIS. It's scheduled for 11 AM...

2013-05-29

840 reads

You Must Cross Teams for Sound Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've given a couple of security presentations recently where I talked about how you must keep track of how security...

2013-05-29

1,066 reads

Blogs

2025 Wrapped for Steve

I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

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Forums

SQL Server 2019 - Agent job PowerShell step issue

I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...

Database security permissions save script

By Srinivas Merugu

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Database security permissions save script

Database backup job steps

I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...

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Question of the Day

The Large Encoded Value

I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?

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