How to Install SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 has been released! In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how you can install the latest version of SQL Server on your machine. I’ll be...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Koen Verbeeck
Webinar: Enhancing Your ETL Pipelines with Custom Data Cleansing and Matching
At Tuesday the 13th of December, I give a webinar about Unison, a self-service online data quality tool of Melissa Data. This is a 30-minute webinar, sponsored by Melissa...
2022-11-10
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Granular Cost Management for Azure Data Factory
A new feature has been launched that allows you to have more granular control over the execution costs of your pipelines. By enabling the feature, you have a cost...
2022-10-31 (first published: 2022-10-19)
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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 🙂
The post...
2022-10-10
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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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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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