On Thursday the 2nd of May, I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com about data quality and SSIS. The abstract: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been around for more than a decade in the Microsoft Data Platform stack. It’s a widely used ETL tool, allowing you to integrate and transform data from various sources. […]
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Webinar: Migrating SQL Server Integration Services to the Cloud
I will be doing a webinar for MSSQLTips.com about migrating your on-premises SSIS solutions to the Azure cloud. Specifically, the Azure-SSIS integration runtime environment in Azure Data Facture. The webinar is Thursday the 7th of March at 8PM UTC. The abstract: Integration Services is a mature ETL product that has been around for more than […]
SSIS and Pentaho – A Quick Comparison
I’ve been working with SSIS for a decade now (all versions, 2005 right until 2017), but it’s been just until recently that I got my hands on Pentaho Data Integration (PDI). PDI is the ETL tool of the Pentaho suite and is maybe most commonly known as kettle. You’ve got an Enterprise edition (which ain’t […]
Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share an overview with you. Some might remember my Biml meetup session at the start of this year. Basically I turned this session into two talks: an introduction to Biml and a more advanced talk about […]
Installing SSDT for Visual Studio 2017
I had SSDT for VS 2017 installed some time ago, but due to some issues I had to uninstall it. I also have SSDT for VS 2015 installed, as an add-on in Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise (because that’s the only way to get TFS working in VS 2015). I tried to re-install SSDT 2017 (stand-alone […]
Introduction to Biml – Webinar
On Thursday June 7th I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com (7PM UTC). The topic is Introduction to Biml – Generating your SSIS packages from scratch. In this webinar, I’ll introduce the Biml language and its concepts and show you how you can generate multiple SSIS packages using metadata. The abstract: Working on your 20th staging […]
Issue while using SQLCompare against Azure SQL DB
I’ve encountered an issue while trying to compare a local SQL Server database against an Azure SQL DB using Redgate SQLCompare. When trying to specify my credentials, I got the following error: “Unable to load adalsql.ddl”. Following that link actually leads you to a helpful page, where you can download the Active Directory Authentication Library […]
Change SSAS Tabular Data Source using TOM
We’ve all been there. You made some adjustments to your Tabular model and you deploy it to the production server using Visual Studio. Whoops, you forgot to change the server name in the data sources, so now your Tabular model in production is trying to read from the test database. Either it crashes – depending […]
Connect to Power BI Report Server with SSMS
Sometimes you want to connect to a report server instance using Management Studio, for example to create a new security role or modify an existing one. Recently I tried to log into our newly installed Power BI Report Server (March 2018 edition). I was greeted with the following error: The Reporting Services instance could not […]
Stop Previewing the bim.layout File in SSAS Tabular
A quick blog post for future reference, because I know I’ll bump into this again someday. When you’re working with a team on a Analysis Services Tabular project, you most likely will check your code into some sort of source control (yes, you do. If not, start tomorrow). One of the problems is the layout […]