Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award
I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award.
This is...
2017-02-02
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Koen Verbeeck
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/Ko_Ver
- Website: https://sqlkover.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kverbeeck/
Speaking at Techorama 2017
I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event.
Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but...
2017-01-31
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Help me raise money for cancer research #tourneeminerale
In Belgium, a national campaign is launched to raise money for cancer research: #TourneeMinerale. In this campaign, people can be...
2017-01-19
558 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests
Let’s kick off the new year with a T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Brent Ozar:
Announcing T-SQL Tuesday...
2017-01-10
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Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates
First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
4,926 reads
Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory
I recently had to install SQL Server 2016 again on my Windows 10 machine. This also meant that I had...
2016-12-15
2,016 reads
SSIS Naming Conventions 2.0
People who have been working for a while with Integration Services probably know the legendary blog post by SQL Server...
2016-12-13 (first published: 2016-12-02)
5,390 reads
Problem where you can only browse Google websites
Note: not a SQL/BI related post like usual, but since it’s a common issue I want to share my solution...
2016-12-01
533 reads
SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 is here!
SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 has been released and it is a mayor one! You can download it here.
Why,...
2016-11-30 (first published: 2016-11-22)
2,433 reads
Calculate a semi-additive average in DAX
A semi-additive average? What exactly are you trying to calculate? Let me explain first. A semi-additive measure is a measure...
2016-11-24
1,750 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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