Session Materials for dataMinds Connect 2022
You can find the slides and the demo scripts (.sql files) in my Github repo. You can use the materials as you like, attribution would be nice 🙂
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2022-10-10
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Koen Verbeeck
How to Calculate Compound Rate in Power BI
Recently I had an interesting use case where I had to a compound calculation in Power BI. You can compound an interest rate for example, where you get a...
2022-10-14 (first published: 2022-09-29)
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Power BI Desktop overwrites Authentication Settings in Similar Connections
Yesterday I was facing an annoying issue. I have two Power BI datasets. Both connect to the same Azure SQL database, but with different SQL users (they have both...
2022-09-28 (first published: 2022-09-13)
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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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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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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.
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2022-05-25
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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