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

Upcoming Online Training for the Week of February 18, 2013

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I used to compile a list of online training for the following week and posting it on Fridays. I stopped...

2013-02-14

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Avoid This Time Scheduling Mistake

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was recently asked by a project manager to lay out when DBAs would accomplish certain tasks for a particular...

2013-02-07

1,421 reads

Consider All the Possibilities When Troubleshooting

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

When you are troubleshooting, the rule is if you've checked the obvious possibilities and still haven't solved the problem, it's...

2013-01-28

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Cash Over Credit

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

What does cash over credit have to deal with security? An awful lot, as it turns out.
Personal Story: Mere days...

2013-01-17

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Observe Carefully When Things Are Running Fine

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog:
As a worker in information technology, I’ve always been a big proponent of studying systems...

2013-01-14 (first published: 2013-01-10)

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Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...

2013-01-11

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Speaking at Midlands PASS in February

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On February 12th I'll be giving a SQL Server Security Refresher for Midlands PASS at Microstaff IT in Cayce/West Columbia,...

2013-01-10

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Re-Awarded as a Microsoft MVP

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yesterday (January 1) I received the email indicating I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP, once again in SQL Server....

2013-01-02

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Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....

2013-01-01

1,317 reads

Are You a Chessplayer?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...

2012-12-17

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Blogs

Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger

I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...

Fighting Procrastination?

By Brian Kelley

Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...

A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit

I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...

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Walk into any jewelry consultation these days and you’ll hear a familiar request: “Something...

SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles

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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles

In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?

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