I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Thursday March 10, 2016. The title is SQL Server BI Best Practices and its abstract goes like this: Join us for this webcast to learn about best practices for SSIS, SSRS and SSAS. Our presenter, Koen Verbeeck has several years of experience working with the SQL Server Business […]
Month: February 2016
Speaking at the first Belgian SQLSaturday!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at the very first SQLSaturday (aka SQLSaturday 505) in Belgium. SQLSaturday are free events focusing on SQL Server and related technologies. They are organised around the world. SQLSaturdays are a great opportunity for local speakers to get some real-life experience in talking before an audience. […]
Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in a blog post. First of all we have to log start and end dates of the package to a table so we can easily calculate the duration a package took to finish. This can probably […]
The Future of SSMS
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a separate installation. You heard that right (read, probably), no more dragging along those bulky .ISO files with the entire SQL Server set-up just to install some client tools. Just like SSDT, you can now just […]
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server for me to review. Since I know both the authors and since I’m familiar with the spectacular work they do, I was happy to do so. Doesn’t mean I won’t do an honest […]