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 […]
Category: SQL Server
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 […]
Migrate SSRS 2017 to Power BI Report Server
UPDATE: The blog post doesn’t make this exactly clear, but fiddling around with the report database to get the upgrade working isn’t supported by Microsoft. However, someone from the SSRS team told me the March 2018 release of Power BI Report Server has fixed some bugs, so you should try to upgrade the normal way. […]
T-SQL Tuesday #99 – Door #2
This months T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Bertrand and the topic is Dealer’s Choice. Aaron gives us the choice to blog about a topic of our choice, either about a passion outside of the SQL Server community, or about a T-SQL bad habit. In this blog post, I’ll tackle the second option, but I […]
Session Materials – Biml DataMinds
All of the materials for my Biml session for DataMinds.be can be downloaded from Github: the slidedeck (it’s only 12MB :)) a .sql file with the DDL statements to create objects (schema, tables, views, stored procs, functions) in a database called Biml (which you have to create yourself). Along with some metadata in those tables. […]
DataMinds.be Meetup – Biml
First blog post of the year and I’d like to take the opportunity to wish everyone the best, professionally and otherwise. And what better way to start the new year with a user group session? On Thursday 25th of January 2018 I will be giving an evening session for dataminds.be, formerly known as SQLUG.be aka […]