Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 3 – Installing the OS
This part of the series will focus on installing the Windows Server 2012 OS on the virtual machine. In most...
2013-06-03
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Koen Verbeeck
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 2 – Building the VM
In this blog post I’ll explain how I build the VM and VHD for my virtual demo environment. I use...
2013-05-31
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 1 – Introduction
Recently I had to give a Power View demo for a client. Giving a demonstration means of course you have...
2013-05-30
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T-SQL Tuesday #42: The Long and Winding Road
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time again for #TSQL2sday! It is the 42nd installment of...
2013-05-14
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Modify a Power View Data Source
I’m currently setting up a demo environment using SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2013 (more on that in later blog...
2013-05-14 (first published: 2013-05-08)
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Error while enabling Windows Feature: Netfx3
Recently I was setting up a virtual machine environment to do some demo’s. One of the virtual machines would be...
2013-04-29
8,932 reads
Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider
Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel...
2013-04-25 (first published: 2013-04-23)
13,010 reads
How I prepared myself for the MCSE certification
Last week I took the final exam to acquire the MCSE – Business Intelligence certification. This blog post describes my preparation...
2013-04-04
18,482 reads
How I used Data Explorer to create a demo
Some time ago Data Explorer, an add-in for Excel 2010 or 2013, was released in Public Preview. In short, it...
2013-03-20
839 reads
What’s the deal with Excel & SSIS?
When it comes to importing data from an Excel sheet with SSIS, Excel has quite a reputation. And not a...
2012-11-27
1,617 reads
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SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
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As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
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Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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