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

Two Acquisitions of Note

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL

It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...

2008-01-16

736 reads

Getting Better at Time Management

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...

2008-01-03

640 reads

Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...

2008-01-03

6,197 reads

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...

2007-12-05

552 reads

Honeypots in the Database

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...

2007-11-23

2,349 reads

Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...

2007-11-23

1,966 reads

Physical Fitness

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Real life events continue to interfere with my regular posting. However, I would rather deal with them and neglect posting...

2007-11-19

1,569 reads

Veterans' Day

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I'll post Part III of Becoming a DBA tomorrow (meaning there will be two posts). Veterans' Day is typically celebrated...

2007-11-12

618 reads

Resources: SQL Server 2005 Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Work responsibilities took up my time on Thursday and Friday, so I never got around to posting. Here's the resources...

2007-11-11

621 reads

Tools: Apex SQL Log, Apex SQL Log API, Sample Corrupted Databases

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Apex SQL has announced a new version of Apex SQL Log as well as an API for it.
Release Notes...

2007-11-07

790 reads

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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