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

A Long Overdue Database Security Rant

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been dealing with a security product from a security company in recent days that breaks best practices with respect...

2008-01-30

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First Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Comic

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Microsoft and Seagate have partnered togethered to put together an IT Heroes comic (daily even). The first one is here:
...

2008-01-29

1,560 reads

Ken Henderson has passed away

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I know I'm not the first in the SQL Server community to post this, but Ken Henderson has passed away...

2008-01-29

1,901 reads

Part II of Troubleshooting Memory Issues

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Windows Server Performance Team has published part 2 of troubleshooting memory issues.
This one covers excessive paging and memory...

2008-01-29

1,662 reads

Citrix Presentation Server Becomes XenApp

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Citrix is changing the name of its flagship product from Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) to XenApp. More from the blogosphere:
Citrix...

2008-01-28

1,988 reads

Metasploit 3.1 is out

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The new version of Metasploit is out. Included is a GUI interface. It's a complete re-write in Ruby (note to...

2008-01-28

1,510 reads

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Deployment Guides available

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw this first on Aaron Stebner's blog:
.NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN
Guidance information for both...

2008-01-28

1,553 reads

Microsoft Security Webcast

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This one is geared towards IT management:
IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 4 of 5): Identity and Access...

2008-01-28

1,649 reads

Vendor Neutral Database Certification

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...

2008-01-28

2,864 reads

Inexpensive Video Training from Internals Expert, Kalen Delaney

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I saw this in my blog reader today:
You can pre-order the Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals Course - Lesson 1 DVD...

2008-01-25

1,069 reads

Blogs

Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition

By Anthony Nocentino

In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...

Advice I Like: Training Employees

Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...

Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI

I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...

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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...

Docker Advice for SQL Server in Production

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DevOps is DevOps

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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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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