A couple of years back Itzik Ben-Gan (the T-SQL guru) wrote the book Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. It’s has been one of my most favorite technical books (I included it in this list): it was really an eye-opener to how useful and powerful window functions can be. It teaches the […]
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.
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! This edition is hosted by Malathi (blog|twitter) and the subject is looking back at the past year. So what do I have to be thankful for? A couple of quick thoughts: Power BI Desktop finally has included the decomposition tree visualization! It was the last piece of the puzzel: PerformancePoint […]
Refresh Power BI Dataset using Logic Apps
A recent blog on the Power BI website announced the availability of a preview component in Microsoft Flow, which allows to easily refresh a specific dataset. This is good news, because in reality Azure Logic Apps are under the hood of Flow, so this means the refresh capability is now also available in Logic Apps. […]
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 10: RATIO_TO_REPORT
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. This episode talks about a […]
Restarting SQL Server after adding a new SQL login
At a project, we asked if we could get a SQL Server login/user so we could make a connection from an Apache Airflow pipeline to the SQL Server instance. The answer was: “No, because then we would need to restart the server”. This sounded a bit strange, because I’ve never had to restart the SQL […]
Speaking Engagements End 2019
Currently I have two conferences in the pipeline. The first is our local DataMinds Connect, the biggest Microsoft data platform conference of the BeNeLux. I’ll be giving a session about the Snowflake cloud data warehouse on Azure, which is pretty much the same one as the one I gave for DataGrillen. The agenda of DataMinds […]
What’s in the pipeline for Power BI?
If you’re interested in Power BI (or the Power platform in general), you might be interested in checking out the release overview guides of “2019 release wave 2” for these products: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications/product-updates/#overview-guides-and-videos Interesting stuff ahead! (I like they’re doing something with data lineage, which is about time)
The Azure-SSIS IR Startup Time
UPDATE: here’s an official blog post going in more technical detail on how they achieved the improvements in startup time If you want to run SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory, you need the Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (quite the mouthful), which is basically a cluster of virtual machines handling the packages like an SSIS […]
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 9: ILIKE
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. Today I have a small […]
SQL Server Development Best Practices – Webinar
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com about SQL Server Development Best Practices. Aka writing T-SQL and stuff 🙂 The webcast is the 13th of June 2019 at 7PM UTC. In a nutshell, I’ll be talking about the stuff I would tell my 10-year younger self about T-SQL development (if I […]