Master Data Services – Database Error has Occured when Publishing Business Rule
I was preparing a demo for a session about the new features of Master Data Services in SQL Server 2016....
2016-11-04 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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Koen Verbeeck
First thoughts on Power BI on premises
The wait is over, the Reporting Services team finally released a preview for Power BI Desktop reports hosted on premises...
2016-11-01 (first published: 2016-10-27)
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Master Data Services error – Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
In preparation of my upcoming webinar on the new features of Master Data Services 2016, I installed MDS on my...
2016-10-23
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What’s new in SSRS 2016 – Session Contents
The 2016 edition of the Belgian SQL Server Days is over. It was a blast – as usual – and it was...
2016-10-14
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My thoughts on Recertifying your MCSE through Microsoft Virtual Academy
A couple of years back I achieved the Microsoft certification MCSE – Business Intelligence. You can read all about that process in...
2016-10-13
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Overview of Published Articles – 2016Q3
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the third quarter of 2016.
What’s New in SQL Server Integration Services...
2016-10-05
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Upcoming Webinars: What’s New in SSRS and MDS 2016
I’ll be delivering two webinars for MSSQLTips.com in the coming months. The first one is about the – amazing – new features...
2016-10-04
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Power BI Desktop hosted on premises with SSRS 2016
UPDATE 2016-10-27: the preview is available as a VM in the Azure Marketplace. More information can be found on the...
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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SSRS Mobile Reports – JSON error
Just a quick blog post about an error I recently encountered when trying to create a mobile report for SSRS...
2016-09-14
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Bigger Fact Table for Wide World Importers
Microsoft released a new sample database a couple of months back: Wide World Importers. It’s quite great: not every (unnecessary...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-12)
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Blogs
More fun with Git: git restore
The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Forums
This doesn't make sense to me - making me crazy - er
Hi So I have the below select query that won't return results if I...
Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers