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

Speaking / Teaching Engagements

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I should have put this out earlier, before going to the SQL Server Innovators Guild, but I got too busy....

2009-02-06

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SQL Server security bulletin due on Tuesday

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As part of its advance notification, Microsoft has released the list of security bulletins that should be coming our way...

2009-02-05

824 reads

Read-Only Access to SQL Server Jobs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This question comes up a lot: how do I give read-only access to job status to a group of people?...

2009-01-22

4,018 reads

What Do You Want Auditors to Know About Auditing SQL Server?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Right now it looks like I'll be putting a training session on for my local ISACA chapter on SQL Server...

2009-01-22

1,098 reads

Video: xp_cmdshell execution in SQL Server 2005/2008

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The video I did for Jumpstart TV on xp_cmdshell execution has hit the front page. Registration on the site is...

2009-01-21

683 reads

Conficker / Downadup Worm One More Time

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Hopefully by now everyone has seen this, but if not, here's a reminder to continue to spread the details. Denis Gobo...

2009-01-20

906 reads

Fake LinkedIn profiles with links to malware

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a little old (five days based on the last update), but TrendMicro put on their blog about fake...

2009-01-20

914 reads

Have you disabled autoplay yet?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If not, you should. Because autoplay being on means any time a removable data device, such as a USB stick,...

2009-01-15

745 reads

Microsoft Solution Accelerators on TechNet

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was browsing through the new titles that are on Safari and saw some planning guides around Windows Server 2008...

2009-01-15

809 reads

More About Twitter

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've mentioned before that I was on Twitter and I know that for some the question is still out on...

2009-01-12

905 reads

Blogs

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...

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...

How to Set Up SQL Server 2025, Ollama and NGINX in Docker Without the Headaches

By MarlonRibunal

Ollama SQL FastStart kit just works out of the box. It makes it easy...

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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...

Cloud Performance Considerations

How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...

Testing, testing, please ignore.

By edwardcasbon-nickname

This is a test, please ignore.

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Question of the Day

Striped Backup File Limits

In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?

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