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...
2017-02-02
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Koen Verbeeck
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...
2017-01-31
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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...
2017-01-19
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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...
2017-01-10
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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...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
4,925 reads
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...
2016-12-15
2,015 reads
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...
2016-12-13 (first published: 2016-12-02)
5,388 reads
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...
2016-12-01
532 reads
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...
2016-11-24
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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,...
2016-11-30 (first published: 2016-11-22)
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Python in Action to Auto-Generate...
Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers