Recently I was working with a client who was still on SQL Server 2012. Support issues aside, there are some very useful T-SQL functions/clauses who didn’t exist in 2012, but were introduced in a later version. One of them is AT TIME ZONE, which you can use the convert dates between time zones, as demonstrated […]
Author: Koen Verbeeck
Koen Verbeeck is a Microsoft Business Intelligence consultant at AE, helping clients to get insight in their data. Koen has a comprehensive knowledge of the SQL Server BI stack, with a particular love for Integration Services. He's also a speaker at various conferences.
Speaking at SQLBits 2022
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking at the SQLBits conference in March 2022! I’m not delivering one session, but two this time. Well, actually, for one session I’m co-presenting with Mala Mahadevan. I’m really looking forward to this session, as it’s a not-well known topic (I hadn’t heard about it till Mala told me […]
Happy 2022
Or is it April 2020? Not sure. Anyway, I’d like to extend my best wishes for the upcoming year. I hope there will be many possibilities for the data community to come together and share knowledge in a safe and responsible manner. In case you’re wondering, here are my top 5 blog posts of 2021: […]
New Argument for STRING_SPLIT Function
A new (optional) argument has been added to STRING_SPLIT: enable_ordinal. Setting it to 1 will add an output column with the 1-based index of each item of the array. Nice. This is great if you want to preserve the order of the items. Let’s illustrate with an example: This returns the following result: As you […]
T-SQL Tuesday #143 – Short code examples
It’s this time of the month again! T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging party on the second Tuesday. This month’s topic is “What are your go to handy short scripts?” brought to you by John McCormack. What are those little short bits of code that you can’t live without? I’m talking about little snippets that […]
Speaking at PASS Data Community Summit
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been selected to speak at the (revamped) PASS Data Community Summit. Alas, PASS is no more, but the summit lives on in this free online edition. That’s right, free! Dozens of sessions related to the Microsoft Data Platform are at your fingertips 🙂 I’m giving a professional development session […]
Webinar – Improve SQL Server Data Quality in SSIS
On the 5th of October 2021 I’ll be giving a webinar about improving data quality of contact data (names, addresses, emails etc) using the Melissa Data Tools. I’ll be doing half an hour of technical demos, while Jeremy of MSSQLTips.com will take for another half our of the business value of the Melissa software. Data […]
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 13: Row-Pattern Recognition
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share. It might be some SQL function that I’d really like to be in SQL Server, it might be something else. In the book T-SQL Window Functions […]
Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2021
In October I’ll be speaking at the dataMinds Connect conference. This event is very dear to me, because it’s a home match, since it’s a Belgian conference, and also the biggest Microsoft Data Platform conference in the BeNeLux. it’s the first in-person event for me this year (fingers crossed the situation only improves till October!) […]
Upcoming Webinar – Intro to SSIS – Advanced Topics
On July the 22th at 9PM CET I will give the second part of the “Introduction to SSIS” webinar series on the MSSQLTips.com website. If you’ve never worked with SSIS before, it helps if you’ve seen part 1. The abstract: In this webinar, we build upon the Getting Started with SSIS webinar. You already know how to […]