Reblog: The OLE DB Source and the Oracle Date Literal
SQLKover update:when of the stranger Oracle issues I encountered over the years. Some time after I published the original blog...
2015-08-06
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Koen Verbeeck
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/Ko_Ver
- Website: https://sqlkover.com/
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My favourite books
As I mentioned in the blog post Speaking at SQL Server Days 2015, I’ll be giving a session at the...
2015-08-04
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Reblog: Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review
SQLKover update:1.5 year later, I still stand by my position: Star Schema The Complete Reference is the best book on...
2015-07-30 (first published: 2015-07-23)
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Reblog: The shaky bug in SSIS
SQLKover update: I’m reblogging this a bit earlier (it’s a quite recent blog post) because I still see people with this...
2015-07-30
1,025 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #68: Just say No to Defaults
It’s the second tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2015-07-17 (first published: 2015-07-13)
2,415 reads
Reblog: Creating a Semi-additive Measure over a Parent-child Hierarchy
Originally this blog post would be titled “Disabling aggregations over a parent-child hierarchy”, but I thought it could create confusion with the...
2015-07-16
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2015-07-16
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Speaking at SQL Server Days 2015
I have the great pleasure to announce I’m speaking for the 5th time at the Belgian SQL Server Days! The...
2015-07-15
656 reads
Power BI Confusion
Just a quick post on some Power BI material that I believe should reach as many people as possible. I get...
2015-07-14
1,629 reads
Thoughts on Power Query and SSIS
Recently I received a very interesting question on Twitter from Jeremy (blog | twitter):
@jmarx definitely yes
— Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) July 10,...
2015-07-13
2,531 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers