SSIS Catalog – Path to backup file could not be determined
I was creating an SSIS catalog at a new project, but I was greeted with the following error message when...
2015-08-13 (first published: 2015-08-10)
4,844 reads
Koen Verbeeck
SSDT-BI and Visual Studio Online
Recently I had to create a new business intelligence project at a client. However, there was no source control present....
2015-08-07
2,514 reads
Reblog: The OLE DB Source and the Oracle Date Literal
SQLKover update:when of the stranger Oracle issues I encountered over the years. Some time after I published the original blog...
2015-08-06
800 reads
My favourite books
As I mentioned in the blog post Speaking at SQL Server Days 2015, I’ll be giving a session at the...
2015-08-04
616 reads
Reblog: The shaky bug in SSIS
SQLKover update: I’m reblogging this a bit earlier (it’s a quite recent blog post) because I still see people with this...
2015-07-30
1,025 reads
Reblog: Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review
SQLKover update:1.5 year later, I still stand by my position: Star Schema The Complete Reference is the best book on...
2015-07-30 (first published: 2015-07-23)
2,201 reads
Reblog: Creating a Semi-additive Measure over a Parent-child Hierarchy
Originally this blog post would be titled “Disabling aggregations over a parent-child hierarchy”, but I thought it could create confusion with the...
2015-07-16
1,094 reads
Speaking at SQL Server Days 2015
I have the great pleasure to announce I’m speaking for the 5th time at the Belgian SQL Server Days! The...
2015-07-15
656 reads
Power BI Confusion
Just a quick post on some Power BI material that I believe should reach as many people as possible. I get...
2015-07-14
1,629 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #68: Just say No to Defaults
It’s the second tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2015-07-17 (first published: 2015-07-13)
2,415 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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