I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com at March 30th. It’s a sponsored webinar, meaning there will also be a vendor to talk about JAMS, a scheduler that “runs, monitors and audits critical processes across a diverse array of servers and business applications”. Anyway, the title is Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SQL Server 2016 Integration Services […]
Category: SQL Server
Not An Administrator For Analysis Services Tabular
A couple of weeks back I installed SQL Server 2016 on my personal machine, including SSAS Tabular. Yesterday I created a new Tabular model project in SQL Server Data Tools. When I had to choose where to locate the model – integrated or a server workspace – I got the nice error message saying I […]
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 […]
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 […]
SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 is here!
SQL Server 2016 service pack 1 has been released and it is a mayor one! You can download it here. Why, you ask, is it so important? Because a lot of Enterprise Edition database engine features are now available in the other editions as well. In other words, you can now enable compression and use […]
Master Data Services – Database Error has Occured when Publishing Business Rule
I was preparing a demo for a session about the new features of Master Data Services in SQL Server 2016. In that demo, I created a business rule to test out the extension with custom scripts. When the business rule was finished, I tried to publish it. But, I was greeted with the following error: “300 […]
First thoughts on Power BI on premises
The wait is over, the Reporting Services team finally released a preview for Power BI Desktop reports hosted on premises using Reporting Services! The preview itself is a VM hosted in Azure. You can read all about setting it up in the SSRS team blog post. I toyed around with the VM for a few […]
Master Data Services error – Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
In preparation of my upcoming webinar on the new features of Master Data Services 2016, I installed MDS on my system. Otherwise it would be quite hard to give demos, of course. The installation itself went quite smooth, no remarks there. I also enabled Internet Information Services (IIS) on my system, as well as a […]
What’s new in SSRS 2016 – Session Contents
The 2016 edition of the Belgian SQL Server Days is over. It was a blast – as usual – and it was very nice meeting up with the #sqlfamily again. I had a session about the new features in SSRS 2016. I was so excited that I could do a full hour session on Reporting […]