Connect is dead! Long live feedback.azure.com!
After years of having to deal with Connect – the feedback platform of Microsoft – it is announced a successor has been...
2017-12-18
1,144 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Book Review – The Biml Book
After years of waiting, a book about Biml has been published! It’s conveniently titled “The Biml Book” (subtitled Business Intelligence and...
2017-12-04
883 reads
SQL Server Data Tools 2017 and TFS Integration
I’ve blogged a while back on how SSIS 2017 was finally here. Not much has changed; there is still no...
2017-11-30
1,802 reads
Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science – The Finish Line
In October 2017, I completed the capstone project of the Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science. I’ve blogged about this...
2017-12-01 (first published: 2017-11-21)
3,142 reads
Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016
For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
2,719 reads
Can’t Connect to Analysis Services – Invalid Connection Information
I have a new installation of SQL Server 2017, along with an instance of Analysis Services Tabular 2017. I tried...
2017-10-30
1,521 reads
Error Installing SQL Server 2017
A quick blog post on an error I got when installing SQL Server 2017 RTM. I ran the set-up for...
2017-10-20
5,600 reads
dataMinds Connect 2017 – And The Winner Is?
Last week I had the privilege to host a little contest to give away one free ticket to dataMinds Connect...
2017-09-25
406 reads
dataMinds Connect 2017 (win a ticket!)
Within two weeks the wait is over: the first edition of dataMinds Connect! For those of you wondering what I’m...
2017-09-18
329 reads
Error Processing Tabular – Method Not Found
Very quick blog post today. While setting-up a development server at a client who is still using SQL Server 2012,...
2017-09-15
377 reads
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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