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

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

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DR planning article up at MSSQLTips!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My latest article is up at MSSQLTips.com:

Disaster Recovery Planning for Microsoft SQL Server - Getting Backups and Restores Right

For more of...

2013-05-23

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Giving an SSIS security webinar with Andy Leonard

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

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

2013-05-23

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Do you check to see if an SSIS package has been modified?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I are putting together a presentation on protecting the entire ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline, specifically...

2013-05-22

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I'm thinking of hosting a series of webinars on SQL Server security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

With the PASS Summit sessions announced, I took a quick look to see how many were what I'd consider security-centric....

2013-05-22

2,831 reads

Speaking in Columbia and Charlotte Next Week

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm speaking at two user groups next week.

Tuesday - Midlands PASS - May 14
I'll be giving a presentation on PowerShell to help...

2013-05-10

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I'm Giving a SQL Server Security Webinar on May 9, 2013

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On May 9, 2013, at 3 PM EDT I will be presenting on 5 Steps Every DBA Should Take to...

2013-05-07

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2013 Carolina Code Camp Presentations

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As promised, here are the presentations and sample code I used at the 2013 Carolina Code Camp. If you attended...

2013-05-06

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Troubleshooting SQL Server Error 15517

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Last week I had the following error message repeating over and over again in the SQL Server log of one of...

2013-04-25 (first published: 2013-04-22)

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Speaking at the 2013 Carolina Code Camp

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On Saturday, May 4, the Enterprise Developers Guild in Charlotte will hold their annual Carolina Code Camp. There's a number...

2013-04-23

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Blogs

Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)

By Vinay Thakur

This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...

Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container

By MarlonRibunal

In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...

Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...

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Can You Really Downgrade from Enterprise to Standard and Save Thousands? Here's What Happened

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Limiting Checkpoints

If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?

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