Oracle ODP.NET: Resolve “Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow” or “Specified cast is not valid”

This is similar to "Oracle Nasty Dates Finder for .NET folks!" but this time it is for numbers instead of dates! I ran into this issue as I was moving data from Oracle to SQL Server. So, you are working with Oracle using ODP.NET and you have a simple, straight-forward SELECT * FROM TABLE; Alternatively, …

PowerShell: Drop All SQL Server Tables, Views, SP’s, Functions, Types etc.

I hope this script does not become infamous for the wrong reasons! Please use caution. I had to help a team recreate everything in a database and test their scripts but leave the roles and role grants in place. Basically, this meant that I could have scripted out the permissions and recreated the database but …