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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Auditing for Blank Passwords

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Auditing blank passwords in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 proves a bit more challenging than in SQL Server 2000. In...

2008-11-01

1,229 reads

Miramar User Group and SQL Saturday Presentations

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Here are the two presentations from last week. On Thursday I went to Miramar, Florida and presented Fortress SQL Server....

2008-10-27

1,564 reads

Out of Band Security Bulletin Release for Microsoft Windows

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft tries to stick with the second Tuesday for security bulletin releases and has only released out-of-band a handful of...

2008-10-23

1,509 reads

"The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with."

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know, another non-technical blog post. But this one is career-related as well.
In high school I was introduced to...

2008-10-20

1,335 reads

"To Lead Is To Follow"

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I first ran across these words as a Citadel cadet. Now those who know of my days at El Cid...

2008-10-19

825 reads

Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I have two speaking engagements for the week of October 19:
South Florida SQL Server User Group - West Palm Beach - October...

2008-10-18

692 reads

Red Gate SQL Response Review is up

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Full Disclosure: I did receive a trial version of the software and payment for the review. I am also a...

2008-10-08

953 reads

SQL Response Review - New SQL Server Monitoring Tool

by Brian Kelley

Redgate

SQL Response

Red Gate's SQL Response is advertised as a low-impact SQL Server monitoring application with an intuitive interface. Given the advertising, I signed up for the SQL Response Release Candidate and took a look. I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.

2008-10-08

4,787 reads