For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to install the add-in for SQL Server 2012 on a machine that has Office 2016 64-bit installed. I clicked on the link in the MDS webpage which send me to the download page of the MDS […]
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.
Can’t Connect to Analysis Services – Invalid Connection Information
I have a new installation of SQL Server 2017, along with an instance of Analysis Services Tabular 2017. I tried to connect to the SSAS instance for the first time, and I was greeted with the following error: “Invalid connection information to establish the server connection” I was using SSMS 17.3 to connect to the […]
Error Installing SQL Server 2017
A quick blog post on an error I got when installing SQL Server 2017 RTM. I ran the set-up for the usual features (database engine, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and MDS), but the installation failed for the database engine and SSIS. During the set-up, I received two pop-ups notifying that something was wrong. A quick look […]
dataMinds Connect 2017 – And The Winner Is?
Last week I had the privilege to host a little contest to give away one free ticket to dataMinds Connect 2017, the biggest Microsoft Data Platform conference in the Benelux. There was a prize question you had to answer: How many versions of SQL Server have I worked with? The answer is: 7 different versions. […]
dataMinds Connect 2017 (win a ticket!)
Within two weeks the wait is over: the first edition of dataMinds Connect! For those of you wondering what I’m talking about, dataMinds Connect is the new name of the SQL Server Days (the biggest Microsoft Data Platform event in the Benelux). I’ve been a regular speaker at the SQL Server Days for quite some […]
Error Processing Tabular – Method Not Found
Very quick blog post today. While setting-up a development server at a client who is still using SQL Server 2012, I was greeted with the following error while processing a Tabular model: Errors in the high-level relational engine. The following exception occurred while an operation was being performed on a data source view: Method not […]
CALCULATE and FILTER: A Love Story?
There have already been many posts/articles/books written about the subject of how CALCULATE and FILTER works, so I’m not going to repeat all that information here. Noteworthy resources (by “the Italians” of course): Filter Arguments in CALCULATE How CALCULATE works in DAX From SQL to DAX: Filtering Data In this blog post I’d rather discuss […]
The Wait Is Over – SSIS 2017 Is Here!
UPDATE: recent builds of SSDT for VS 2017 can break TFS integration. Read more about it in the blog post SQL Server Data Tools 2017 and TFS Integration. UPDATE 2018-06-20: I was finally able to install the stand-alone version of SSDT for VS 2017 with working TFS integration. Read more about it here. Finally, months […]
Fix for Blurry SSMS in Windows 10
I recently got a new laptop with Windows 10. I noticed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS 17.1) was looking a bit blurry on my laptop screen. On another screen, it looked fine though. The cause for this is easy to find in the display settings. My primary screen is scaled to 125%, while the other […]
Two Small Tips for Working with Azure
Very quick blog post about two tips for working with Azure (hence the title of course). I recently started up a project where the data warehouse needed to be fully in the cloud. This was an Azure SQL Database, not Azure Data Warehouse. The size of the DWH was just not big enough (although Microsoft […]