Techorama 2018 Session Materials
Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely...
2018-05-25
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Koen Verbeeck
Issue while using SQLCompare against Azure SQL DB
I’ve encountered an issue while trying to compare a local SQL Server database against an Azure SQL DB using Redgate...
2018-05-15
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Change SSAS Tabular Data Source using TOM
We’ve all been there. You made some adjustments to your Tabular model and you deploy it to the production server...
2018-05-15 (first published: 2018-05-08)
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Connect to Power BI Report Server with SSMS
Sometimes you want to connect to a report server instance using Management Studio, for example to create a new security...
2018-05-11 (first published: 2018-05-02)
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Stop Previewing the bim.layout File in SSAS Tabular
A quick blog post for future reference, because I know I’ll bump into this again someday.
When you’re working with a...
2018-03-29 (first published: 2018-03-22)
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Book Review – Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel
As preparation for my session at Techorama.be about data modeling in self-service BI, I decided to read the book Analyzing Data...
2018-03-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #100!
The monthly blog party is back and we’ve reached the mythical number 100. The host of this month is the...
2018-03-13
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Excel Rendering In Power BI Report Server: You Are Not Licensed To Use This Feature
I recently migrated an SSRS 2017 instance to a Power BI Report Server environment, as you can read in the...
2018-03-12
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Migrate SSRS 2017 to Power BI Report Server
UPDATE: The blog post doesn’t make this exactly clear, but fiddling around with the report database to get the upgrade...
2018-03-20 (first published: 2018-03-08)
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Data Modeling for Self-Service BI @ Techorama 2018
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a session about data modeling in a self-service BI environment at Techorama 2018...
2018-03-02
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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UNISTR Escape
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Question of the Day
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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