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

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MySQL GUI Tools

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This came up on Twitter today. I have a search set for "SQL Server" and it pulled up someone who...

2009-01-09

941 reads

Windows Server 2008 R2 Core supports SQL Server

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

First saw this because Jason Massietwittered about it. But apparently there are enough bits of the .NET Framework in R2...

2009-01-09

1,254 reads

Organizing RSS Feeds

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have a lot of blogs I subscribe to. Well over 500 at last count. And the truth of the...

2009-01-07

722 reads

MVP Award

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Received my notification via email this morning that I've been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. It's been...

2009-01-01

734 reads

Joel Spolsky on servant leadership

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...

2008-12-29

1,606 reads

Using the Service Audit Object in SQL Server 2008

by Brian Kelley

SQLServerCentral.com

Security

Brian Kelley looks at auditing in this article about SQL Server 2008 and the enhancements made in this version. The new Audit Object allows you to more easily determine what is happening on your SQL Server instance.

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2008-12-18

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Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in October I had the opportunity to work with Andy Warren and do a series of SQL Server security...

2008-12-17

1,397 reads

SQL Quiz Part 2 - Career Challenges

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Another diabolical idea of Chris Shaw. I'm actually late to the game because I got tagged a week ago by...

2008-12-16

984 reads

Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been off-line except for hints here and there for the last couple of weeks due to fighting off an...

2008-12-04

1,070 reads

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...

2008-12-04

852 reads

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Brian Kelley

MySQL GUI Tools

Windows Server 2008 R2 Core supports SQL Server

Organizing RSS Feeds

MVP Award

Joel Spolsky on servant leadership

Using the Service Audit Object in SQL Server 2008

Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line

SQL Quiz Part 2 - Career Challenges

Immune Systems, User Groups, Changing Jobs

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything

Blogs

Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

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

Forums

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

Cloud Performance Considerations

Testing, testing, please ignore.

Question of the Day

Striped Backup File Limits