Gerard

With over 20 years of experience in the data & analytics space, I’ve helped many customers architect, design and implement modern, cloud data platforms to turn data into a strategic advantage.

I specialise in Microsoft’s suite of data technologies, both in Azure and on-premise. I have however worked with many other vendor products over the years. I have successfully delivered multiple solutions leveraging technologies including but not limited to; Azure Data Factory v2, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Services, Power BI, Azure SQL Database, Azure Batch and various flavours of IaaS workloads in hybrid environments.

Blogs

Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables

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Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...

A Spread of Vacation

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I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...

How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures

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From SQL Server On-Premises to Claude Desktop: How I built a Full MCP Pipeline

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Independence Day 2026

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Independence Day 2026

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Independence Day 2026

In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.

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