Book Review – Power Pivot and Power BI
Since Power BI is all the rage right now, I was in need of some material to spice up my...
2016-11-21 (first published: 2016-11-15)
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Koen Verbeeck
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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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
521 reads
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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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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