SSIS Deployment with PowerShell: Adding Environment References
With the release of the revamped Integration Services in SQL Server 2012, a bunch of new deployment methods were introduced...
2013-08-21
7,721 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Rants about Connect
The site connect.microsoft.com is a wonderful concept: you can provide feedback about the Microsoft products, report bugs and give suggestions...
2013-07-29
711 reads
Data Visualization – Book Review
To prepare myself for my session Data Visualization Tips & Tricks, I read a few books. In this blog post, I’ll...
2013-07-16
1,093 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...
2013-07-09
640 reads
SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS?
Oh wait sorry, I meant SSDT. Or was it SSDTBI? To avoid confusion about the developer tool to create BI...
2013-06-28
4,493 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site
In the final part of this series, we will create a BI subsite in our site collection. You can use...
2013-06-12
3,076 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services
Finally we are getting to the really sweet stuff: Power View. But first we have to install Reporting Services in...
2013-06-11
4,690 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration
After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...
2013-06-10
4,063 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint
In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...
2013-06-07
1,196 reads
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 6 – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint
Before we can configure SharePoint, we will have to install the Analysis Service instance that will host the PowerPivot workbooks...
2013-06-06
3,389 reads
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Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
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I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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