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.
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SQL Server Security: Fixed Database Roles

Brian is back with a new security article, this time working through the details of the fixed database roles. There are some important concepts here. In particular if you're not totally clear on the difference between dbo and db_owner, read this article.

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2019-09-18 (first published: )

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