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

Don't Wait to Start Blogging

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...

2011-08-15

2,245 reads

Have the Time? Get in the Game.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This year there's a two step process for electing members to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors...

2011-08-11

880 reads

T-SQL Tuesday/Wednesday #21: A Crappy Workaround

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...

2011-08-10

2,062 reads

Functionality and User Experience are important, too

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...

2011-08-09

805 reads

Security Is Your Responsibility

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...

2011-08-08

948 reads

MSSQLTips.com Kindle Contest

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...

2011-08-04

1,040 reads

Rant: Security Isn't Sexy and It's a Shame

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I grew up immersed in security. My father was a US Marine and going on and off base meant... security....

2011-08-03

1,228 reads

Bad Network Performance? Check the TCP Chimney Offload/Receive Side-Scaling/Network DMA Settings

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

We recently ran into a case where connecting to a Windows Server 2003 server with SQL Server installed on it,...

2011-08-02

15,653 reads

Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-28

2,172 reads

Bad Admins: Taking Advantage of Maintenance Periods

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...

2011-07-25

1,056 reads

Blogs

Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely

By Peter Skoglund

Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...

Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit

By Brian Kelley

I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...

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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

Connecting ERP system E2 and Extract Data , perform Transformation

Hello, May someone please help me how can I pull data from ERP named...

Slip Streaming Installs

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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