Nesting Aggregates with Window Functions
Recenty I was writing an article for MSSQLTips where I had to create a treemap (it will be published soon)....
2015-08-26 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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Koen Verbeeck
Reblog: Slow source? Make your data flow buffers smaller!
Whoa whoah. Aren’t you supposed to increase your data flow buffer size in order to speed up your packages? If...
2015-08-13
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Scripts and SSDT-BI 2013
Recently I tried to open a script component in SSDT-BI 2013. I was developing for SSIS 2014, so this means...
2015-08-11
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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)
4,845 reads
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
2,522 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
805 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
618 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
1,026 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)
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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
1,095 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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