MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,

Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions...

CREATE DATABASE – I’ve not seen that before.

TweetG’day,
It’s been a while
I thought that I’d make a quick blog post about an incident that I encountered today...

Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 7: The Significance of Fuzzy Stats

By Steve Bolton
…………In the world of fuzzy sets and imprecision modeling, the concept of cardinality takes on new shades of...

The most underrated show on Data Platform – SQL Unplugged

I would like to write a blog post about by far the most underrated online show about Data Platform – SQL...

We’re hiring!

I’m proud and humbled to announce that my company, Heraflux Technologies, is hiring for a Data Platform Solutions Architect!
We are...

Installing dbatools on WS2012 R2

This is actually a simple, short post, but writing helps me remember things, and since I had to learn this,...

Retrieve a List of Files from FTP using SSIS

The FTP protocol is one of the oldest methods for sharing and moving files. Although frequently considered to be an “old-school”...

Friday Reading 2017-01-20

Been an interesting week! My site has had the most views ever (so chuffed) and during all that I’ve been...

MVPs

I was having a conversation with Oracle professionals the other day and they started to discuss the Oracle ACE program...

Adding Application Name to Invoke-SqlCmd2

In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...