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

SQL Saturday in Orlando

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The dates for Microsoft's TechEd 2008 are fast approaching here in North America. Sandwiched between the two weeks of this year's...

2008-05-23

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Review of How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Frank Kalis has posted a short review on How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005, a...

2008-05-20

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Technical Podcasts I Listen To

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

There are a few podcasts I tend to listen to as I have time. Since I work with a wide...

2008-05-19

4,044 reads

Giving a Presentation?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As a president of a local PASS chapter, one of the things I've struggled with is getting "locals" to give...

2008-05-17

676 reads

Setting Static Ports when dealing with Named Instances and Kerberos

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I ran across this a week or so ago. There were a couple of SQL Servers running named instances that...

2008-05-17

10,641 reads

Command and Control of the Data Center

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As I went walking last night, I listened to two podcasts from RunAs Radio of interviews of Michael Manos and...

2008-05-16

1,087 reads

Give Back: Donate Your Hair for Children in Need

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

While this will remain a primarily technical blog, one thing I'm going to try and add is each Saturday I'll...

2008-05-16

738 reads

Midlands PASS May Meeting - Speaker Brian Knight

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Speaker: SQL Server MVP Brian Knight
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a special meeting on...

2008-05-15

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Thoughts on SQL Saturday in Jacksonville

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was able this Saturday to head down to Jacksonville and speak at the SQL Saturday there. There were a...

2008-05-07

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Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...

2008-05-02

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Blogs

The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech

If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...

Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server

By Anthony Nocentino

I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...

Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM

I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...

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Forums

A question about how to store the address in the database

I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...

SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component

Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...

T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...

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Multiple Sequence Values

How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?

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