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

Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting - April 3, 2008

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a meeting reminder about our next PASS meeting scheduled for April 3, 2008. It will once again be...

2008-04-01

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Presenting at Jacksonville SQLSaturday in May

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Looks like my family and I will make the trek down to Jacksonville in May for SQLSaturday. One of my...

2008-04-01

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Vulnerability announcements coming for Windows products

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'm a little late on this one, but Cesar Cerrudo has announced he's going to demonstrate exploits to Windows Server...

2008-04-01

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Getting Reporting Services to work on Vista

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I recently ordered a new laptop and this one came with Windows Vista Ultimate. I knew about having to install...

2008-03-26

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Hadn't written in a bit - that should improve again

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've been swarmed under at work and with migraines. That should change over the weekend (the swarmed under... migraines come...

2008-03-13

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Blogs

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...

Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?

For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...

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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

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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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