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

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

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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

963 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

1,047 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

1,235 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

15,680 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

2,187 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

1,063 reads

Bad Admins: Stealing the SQL Server Service Account

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...

2011-07-22

1,378 reads

Bad Admins: Pocketing Backups

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...

2011-07-21

735 reads

Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials, Part II

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In a previous post I gave suggestions on how to get speaking credentials for consideration at a larger event, such...

2011-07-21

953 reads

Blogs

A New Word: Dorgone

dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...

Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers

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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident

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