UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here. Recently someone had a question if it was possible to change the color of a shape depending on the value of a measure. Imagine for example a dashboard with the picture of a database server. If up-time is good […]
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.
Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award
I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award. This is a great honor and I’m grateful for all the support I’ve received of Microsoft, my peers and the SQL Server community over the past years. I’d like to take this moment to thank you […]
Speaking at Techorama 2017
I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event. Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but not limited to) Microsoft technologies. This year, the event is even bigger as they have merged with the IT Pro event ITPROceed (where I have spoken 3 times in the last years). So I’m […]
Help me raise money for cancer research #tourneeminerale
In Belgium, a national campaign is launched to raise money for cancer research: #TourneeMinerale. In this campaign, people can be sponsored for not drinking alcohol for the whole month of February 2017. This sponsor money is donated to the national cancer research center. The name of the campaign – Tournée Minéral – comes from the […]
T-SQL Tuesday 86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests
Let’s kick off the new year with a T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Brent Ozar: Announcing T-SQL Tuesday #86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests Brent wants us to blog about our favorite Connect items because Microsoft is currently listening to its customers and actually closing items. So it is the time […]
Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates
First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2 dimension. Weird right? But I have a good reason for this: it’s a snapshot table and if I would create the snapshots like you’re supposed to (by exploding the fact table) I would end up […]
Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory
I recently had to install SQL Server 2016 again on my Windows 10 machine. This also meant that I had to install and configure MDS as well. Last time it didn’t went so smoothly: Master Data Services error – Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions. However, this time I had already applied Service […]
SSIS Naming Conventions 2.0
People who have been working for a while with Integration Services probably know the legendary blog post by SQL Server MVP Jamie Thomson: Suggested Best Practises and naming conventions. The blog post served as a guidance point for many SSIS projects regarding naming conventions of the various tasks and components. I still use them every […]
Problem where you can only browse Google websites
Note: not a SQL/BI related post like usual, but since it’s a common issue I want to share my solution here Quite recently I had a bizarre issue on my laptop: suddenly I could only browse Google websites (Google search, YouTube, Gmail …). All the other websites would time out or give error messages. On […]
Calculate a semi-additive average in DAX
A semi-additive average? What exactly are you trying to calculate? Let me explain first. A semi-additive measure is a measure that can be summed across some dimensions, but not all. Typically it’s the time dimension that isn’t additive. For example, the stock level at various warehouses. You can add all the stock levels of your […]