Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award

I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award.

This is...

Speaking at Techorama 2017

I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event.

Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but...

Help me raise money for cancer research #tourneeminerale

In Belgium, a national campaign is launched to raise money for cancer research: #TourneeMinerale. In this campaign, people can be...

T-SQL Tuesday 86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests

 Let’s kick off the new year with a T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Brent Ozar:
Announcing T-SQL Tuesday...

Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates

First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2...

Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory

I recently had to install SQL Server 2016 again on my Windows 10 machine. This also meant that I had...

SSIS Naming Conventions 2.0

People who have been working for a while with Integration Services probably know the legendary blog post by SQL Server...

Problem where you can only browse Google websites

Note: not a SQL/BI related post like usual, but since it’s a common issue I want to share my solution...

Calculate a semi-additive average in DAX

A semi-additive average? What exactly are you trying to calculate? Let me explain first. A semi-additive measure is a measure...

SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 is here!

SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 has been released and it is a mayor one! You can download it here.

Why,...