Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 3 – Installing the OS
This part of the series will focus on installing the Windows Server 2012 OS on the virtual machine. In most...
2013-06-03
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Koen Verbeeck
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 2 – Building the VM
In this blog post I’ll explain how I build the VM and VHD for my virtual demo environment. I use...
2013-05-31
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 1 – Introduction
Recently I had to give a Power View demo for a client. Giving a demonstration means of course you have...
2013-05-30
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Modify a Power View Data Source
I’m currently setting up a demo environment using SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2013 (more on that in later blog...
2013-05-14 (first published: 2013-05-08)
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T-SQL Tuesday #42: The Long and Winding Road
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time again for #TSQL2sday! It is the 42nd installment of...
2013-05-14
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Error while enabling Windows Feature: Netfx3
Recently I was setting up a virtual machine environment to do some demo’s. One of the virtual machines would be...
2013-04-29
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Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider
Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel...
2013-04-25 (first published: 2013-04-23)
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2013-04-10
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How I prepared myself for the MCSE certification
Last week I took the final exam to acquire the MCSE – Business Intelligence certification. This blog post describes my preparation...
2013-04-04
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How I used Data Explorer to create a demo
Some time ago Data Explorer, an add-in for Excel 2010 or 2013, was released in Public Preview. In short, it...
2013-03-20
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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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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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