Building Flat File Connectors Dynamically For SSIS
Building Connectors Is Crap in SSIS What else can I say. I finally broke when I had to build a flat file connector with 258 columns that needed to be imported into a staging database. 258 columns… I...
View ArticleMoving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS! I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools that are easily replaced in most cases with quality and stable open source alternatives....
View ArticleSQL Server, Pricing, Editions and Features
I Want Features Not Cost! Recently Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) wrote a post SQL Server Standard Edition Sucks, And It’s All Your Fault. Needless to say, he isn’t happy with the price and what you don’t...
View ArticleI Am Surprised Every Time
Who me? Yep me. I have been honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional again this year in SQL Server. This is my third year to receive the award and just like the last two years I am humbled...
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Oh, The Free Stuff!
Ah, Shwag I’ve been doing the whole conference thing for a while. Not as long as some but quite a while. Along the way I’ve collected quite a bit of stuff. I’ve also given away most of it to the...
View ArticleDigging Around For Free Tools – SQL Server
Tool Archaeology, Digging Through The Web About every three to six months I will burn some time and just go digging for tools. Mostly, I’m looking for stuff related to SQL Server, PowerShell or C#...
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Digging Around For Free Tools – BitBucket
Digging Around In BitBucket BitBucket was very thin when it comes to SQL Server. I did find a couple of interesting projects that may appeal to others as well as me. BonSQL Turn any version of...
View ArticleDigging Around For Free Tools – Google Code
Digging Around In Google Code Google Code was very thin when it comes to SQL Server. I did find a few of interesting projects that may appeal to others as well as me. I will say there was a TON of use...
View ArticleGrowing It At Home: Building Your Own Tools
Short On Money? Sometimes that is the motivation. Maybe the tool you want doesn’t really exist yet? For me it was those things and the joy of building something useful. I’ve built dozens if not...
View ArticleGo, Go, Golang!
WHAT! Yep, you read that right. I’m building tools in Go. I can hear you now…. But Wes you are a SQL Server guy, a WINDOWS guy! What about C#? What about Powershell? What about ANY THING ELSE???...
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