Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q3

Here is an overview of the articles I published in the third quarter of 2015.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system...

What’s new for BI in SQL 2016 – Session materials

SQL Server Days 2015 is over and it was a blast. Met a lot of people from the #sqlfamily, too...

New SSRS features in SQL 2016 CTP 2.4

SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 hasn’t been released yet (any day now I guess), but someone was apparently very eager...

Why I hate Pie Charts

The pie chart should be avoided at all costs. Why?
you can only display a limited number of slices (although that...

Reblog: The Magic Alt Button

SQLKover update: I love this trick! I use it daily, no kidding (except in weekends). Want to see it in live...

MDS 2016 CTP 2.3: tiles greyed out in Manager

I’m toying around with MDS 2016 CTP 2.3 in preparation of my SQLServerDays session about what is new for BI...

The SSDT Evolution

When you are developing for the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack, you always needed Visual Studio for your business intelligence (SSIS,...

Webinar – SSIS Best Practices and Tuning Tips

I’ll be giving an SSIS webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Tuesday 15th September 2015.

The title is SQL Server Integration Services Best...

Report Builder Changes in SQL Server 2016

As a lot of features, Report Builder will improve as well in SQL Server 2016. At the moment of writing CTP 2.3...

SSIS – Unexpected Termination

I was toying around with the new SQL Server 2016 CTP release and I wanted to run a few SSIS packages...