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

Changing the Command Prompt

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I spend a lot of time at the command prompt and to be perfectly honest, I'm tired of looking at:
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2008-02-20

1,751 reads

Errata for SQL Server Certification Books

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in this blog post, I indicated which books I was using to complete the MCITP certifications for SQL Server....

2008-02-19

1,734 reads

Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals DVD

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I did end up pre-ordering the first DVD on SQL Server internals by SQL Server MVP and SQL Server internals...

2008-02-11

1,363 reads

The Right Font

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I was doing some development on my laptop tonight and I was getting fed up with the default font, Courier...

2008-02-09

3,622 reads

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting this Thursday, February 7, 2008

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The Midlands PASS Chapter is pleased to announce our own Paul Shearer and Bill Stevenson as our speakers for our...

2008-02-05

626 reads

Preparing for SQL Server 2005 Certification

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I never did complete my MCDBA. As I was preparing to, I transitioned to my systems architect role, meaning I...

2008-02-05

3,190 reads

New SQL Server book on Disaster Recovery

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

James Luetkehoelter has announced his book on SQL Server Disaster Recovery is complete. It is published by aPress and due...

2008-02-04

900 reads

Windows Server 2008 RTMs

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a small surprise, mainly because it looked like only Visual Studio 2008 was actually going to make the...

2008-02-04

610 reads

Ask for SQL Server 2005 SP3

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In case you haven't seen this elsewhere, if you want Microsoft to release SP3 for SQL Server 2005. It's time...

2008-02-03

937 reads

SQL Server MVP Randy Dyess webcast on SQL Server 2008 Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

SQL Server MVP Randy Dyess has a short webcast which provides the highlights of SQL Server 2008 security.He includes some...

2008-02-03

614 reads

Blogs

“We love to debate minutiae”

By Brian Kelley

I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...

Advice I Like: Knots

Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

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how to write this query?

Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...

Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB

Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...

Multiple Deployment Processes

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Question of the Day

Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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