Why I hate Pie Charts

9 years ago

The pie chart should be avoided at all costs. Why? you can only display a limited number of slices (although…

Reblog: The Magic Alt Button

9 years ago

SQLKover update: I love this trick! I use it daily, no kidding (except in weekends). Want to see it in live…

MDS 2016 CTP 2.3: tiles greyed out in Manager

9 years ago

I'm toying around with MDS 2016 CTP 2.3 in preparation of my SQLServerDays session about what is new for BI…

The SSDT Evolution

9 years ago

When you are developing for the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack, you always needed Visual Studio for your business intelligence (SSIS,…

Webinar – SSIS Best Practices and Tuning Tips

9 years ago

I'll be giving an SSIS webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Tuesday 15th September 2015. The title is SQL Server Integration Services…

Report Builder Changes in SQL Server 2016

9 years ago

As a lot of features, Report Builder will improve as well in SQL Server 2016. At the moment of writing CTP 2.3…

SSIS – Unexpected Termination

9 years ago

I was toying around with the new SQL Server 2016 CTP release and I wanted to run a few SSIS packages…

Nominated for Author of the Year 2015

9 years ago

I have the great pleasure to announce that I have been nominated for the “Author of the Year 2015” award…

SQL 2016 CTP 2.3 has been released

9 years ago

A new monthly release of the SQL Server 2016 preview has been released: CTP 2.3. You can find the download…

Reblog: Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider

9 years ago

Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel…