SSIS Performance Testing

I had to do some performance testing for an upcoming MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I...

Changing the 1000 separator in Power View

Recently I was designing a simple Power View report on top of a multi-dimensional SSAS cube. Out of the box,...

Thinking with Data by Max Shron

DISCLAIMER
I recently enrolled myself in the O’Reilly Blogger Review program, which basically allows me to get one O’Reilly eBook for...

Dude, where’s my Power Map?

If you haven’t noticed lately, Power Map has gone into General Availability as of 25 of February 2014. It comes...

Dealing with the mysterious “True” column in BIML

Recently I ran into the following error when compiling BIML into SSIS packages:

The message itself is not very revealing:
The data...

Calculating the length of a hash in SQL Server

Some time ago I added a script component to a few SSIS packages to compare rows with each other using...

Master Data Services (Second Edition) – Review

For the preparation of my upcoming talk about SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services on the Microsoft Business Analytics Day...

Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review

I finished my first book of this year and here’s the review! After I finished the newest edition of Ralph...

T-SQL Tuesday #50: Automation, how much of it is the same?

It’s the second Tuesday of the New Year, so here comes the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2014! SQLChow (blog | twitter)...

Happy 2014

I am a bit late with the almost obligatory “How was my past year and how do I think next...