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

Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As an infrastructure type person, I typically represent a "shared" resource. What that means is I'm not dedicated to just...

2011-05-13

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You Are Responsible for You

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Steve Jones wrote an editorial yesterday called The Poor Soul. It talked about being thrown into a responsibility one didn't...

2011-05-12

731 reads

Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Inevitably, even if we work for ourselves, we get frustrated with our workplace. This is true of all aspects of...

2011-05-11

3,024 reads

Vote for My PASS Summit Sessions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yes, this is absolutely a shameless post for self-promotion. However, since potential attendees get to offer input into what sessions...

2011-05-11

952 reads

Know Your Limits

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

A little over a week ago I roughed up my back moving sound equipment after a ministry event. I have...

2011-05-10

1,708 reads

I Won't Be at SQL Rally

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I am excited about the SQL Rally event that's coming up next week. However, I won't be there. I've been...

2011-05-05

860 reads

My PASS Summit Submissions

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Following Andy Leonard's (blog | twitter) footsteps, here are my PASS Summit submissions. I decided to go a little different this...

2011-05-05

787 reads

Outlook Productivity Tricks

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook. It's the required email client at work and because it interfaces with so...

2011-05-05

2,100 reads

Writing Better Emails

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In January 2009, I made the transition back to being a senior DBA. One of the first things my manager...

2011-05-04

2,927 reads

How often do you check email?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you read the experts, most folks check their emails too many times during the day. Today, while giving a...

2011-05-03

791 reads

Blogs

A Small LLM Fail

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...

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...

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Forums

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...

SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)

By Eric M Russell

We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...

SQL Newbie HELP: The query references an object that is not supported in distr..

Hi everyone! I'm new to SQL and am trying to query a view (dbo.)...

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