Speaking Engagements for Fall 2022
The summer holiday is almost over, and this means conference season will be back in full swing again. I’ll be speaking at a couple of events in the second...
2022-08-23
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Koen Verbeeck
- Website: https://sqlkover.com/
Cool Stuff in SQL Server 2022 – IS DISTINCT FROM
I have a blog post series about some nice features in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse; one of them is about the IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM predicate. I was...
2022-08-17 (first published: 2022-08-04)
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Free Webinar – T-SQL Best Practices and Tuning for the BI/DWH Developer
I’m giving a free webinar for MSSQLTips.com at 11th of August 2022. The abstract: When building a data warehouse (DWH) in the Microsoft Data Platform stack, you typically have...
2022-08-02
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SharePoint List only returns 100 items in Azure Logic App
I was reading a SharePoint List using the “Get Items” activity in an Azure Logic App. I explain how you can create such a Logic App in the blog...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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Power BI Field Parameters and Slowly Changing Dimensions
Power BI field parameters are a new feature in Power BI Desktop, and it’s one of the best of the past months. In short, Power BI field parameters allow...
2022-06-17
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Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2022
I’m very excited to announce I’ll be giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect (in the beginning it was called SQL Server Day(s)). It will be...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-06-16)
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How you can save up to 80% on Azure Data Factory pricing
… with this one weird little trick 🙂 Sorry for the clickbait, but you can actually save a lot on ADF pricing if you design your pipelines carefully. And...
2022-06-01 (first published: 2022-05-11)
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Logic Apps and Source Control (with PowerShell)
At a data warehouse project I’m using a couple of Logic Apps to do some lightweight data movements. For example: reading a SharePoint list and dumping the contents into...
2022-05-25 (first published: 2022-04-20)
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Techorama 2022 – Session Materials
You can find my slidedeck for the session “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” on Github:https://github.com/KoenVerbeeck/SessionMaterials All demos given in the session are explained in the ADF tutorial at MSSQLTips.com.
The...
2022-05-25
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How to Deploy an Azure Function with PowerShell using Azure Devops
In the blog post Azure Function with PowerShell and the Power BI REST API I explained how you could create an Azure Function using the PowerShell scripting language. This...
2022-05-16 (first published: 2022-04-27)
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Blogs
Automatically Take Missed Backups with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts
I blogged a few years ago about my configuration tables for Ola Hallengren’s maintenance...
SQL Server 2022 is GA!
By James Serra
The big announcement at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 was that SQL Server...
Tell My Story of Public Speaking
This month the fine folks behind New Stars of Data and the DataGrillen Newcomer...
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Join query with many tables
Hi guys, I hope everyone's ok I have a query in MySql (I'm using...
Mass update on Clustered Columnstore indexes
Hi, we have a FACT table with 35 billion rows, partitioned on daily level....
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