Go, Go, Golang!

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

WHAT!
 
Yep, you read that right. I’m building tools in Go.
I can hear you now…. But Wes you are a SQL...

2016-08-26 (first published: 2016-08-17)

1,744 reads

Growing It At Home: Building Your Own Tools

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Short On Money?
Sometimes that is the motivation. Maybe the tool you want doesn’t really exist yet? For me it was...

2014-02-10

1,030 reads

Digging Around For Free Tools – Google Code

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Digging Around In Google Code
Google Code was very thin when it comes to SQL Server. I did find a few...

2013-12-04

1,065 reads

Digging Around For Free Tools – BitBucket

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Digging Around In BitBucket
BitBucket was very thin when it comes to SQL Server. I did find a couple of interesting...

2013-12-02

900 reads

Digging Around For Free Tools – SQL Server

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Tool Archaeology, Digging Through The Web
About every three to six months I will burn some time and just go digging...

2013-11-29

1,338 reads

Oh, The Free Stuff!

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Ah, Shwag
 
I’ve been doing the whole conference thing for a while. Not as long as some but quite a while....

2013-10-08

878 reads

I Am Surprised Every Time

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Who me?
Yep me. I have been honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional again this year in SQL Server. This...

2013-10-02

719 reads

SQL Server, Pricing, Editions and Features

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

I Want Features Not Cost!
Recently Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) wrote a post SQL Server Standard Edition Sucks, And It’s All Your...

2013-08-01

1,071 reads

Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Open Source, ON WINDOWS!
I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools...

2013-07-23

1,408 reads

Building Flat File Connectors Dynamically For SSIS

• by Wesley Brown

• SQL Man of Mystery

Building Connectors Is Crap in SSIS – Updated
What else can I say. I finally broke when I had to build a...

2013-07-10

1,919 reads