I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been selected to speak at SQLSaturday Vienna. Actually, it’s on Friday 15th of January, so don’t get fooled by the name. I’m bringing the session Self-service BI – Why Data Modelling Is Still Important, which is a beginner level talk about why you should pay attention to the data model […]
Migrating SSIS to Azure – an Overview
For quite some time now, there’s been the possibility to lift-and-shift your on-premises SSIS project to Azure Data Factory. There, they run in an Integration Runtime, a cluster of virtual machines that will execute your SSIS packages. In the beginning, you only had the option to use the project deployment model and host your SSIS […]
Publish Database Fails – Script File could not be found
A small blog post for anyone who stumbles across this issue (and for my future self, should I forget the solution). I was working on some tables in SSDT and I tried to publish changes to the database on my local machine. I got a build error because I created a clustered index on the […]
Exporting Environment Variables out of the SSIS Catalog
Sometimes when you’ve created a SSIS catalog, along with folders, environments and environment variables, you want this content on another server. Unfortunately, you can only script out these objects in SSMS at the moment you’re creating them (thus right before you clikc ‘OK’ to confirm). Once the objects are created, you can no longer script […]
Converting a Datetime to UTC
I was in a need of converting some datetime values (of which I know the actual timezone) to UTC dates. A quick Google search showed me that most results on the first page were simply wrong. Most of them used this trick: Seems nifty, but they forgot about daylight savings time. If I run the […]
Optimize for Unknown for Inline Table-Valued Functions
I had a curious performance issue today. An inline table-valued function (iTVF) was performing poorly for some parameter sets, and quite fast for other parameter values. In short, this one is fast: This one is slow: Turns out SQL Server used a plan with a hash join in the fast query, and a nested loop […]
Speaking at SQLSaturday Denmark 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’m speaking at the virtual SQLSaturday Denmark at the 26th of September 2020. I’ll be speaking about the cloud datawarehouse Snowflake and its integration with Azure. The era of cloud data warehousing has finally begun. Gone are the days where you had to provision expensive servers and spend days configuring and […]
Skip Validation of SSIS Packages
There’s been an update of the SSIS extension for Visual Studio 2019. There are some bug fixes and deployments are blocked to Azure-SSIS if the target server version is not SQL Server 2017, but the real killer feature is the ability to now skip validation of an SSIS package when you open it. This might […]
Speaking at DataMinds Connect 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking again at DataMinds Connect this year, one of the greatest and best Microsoft Data Platform conferences on the European mainland. Due to the pandemic, this year edition is virtual, but this also means: more sessions! And a deep-dive track! And the event itself is free! The agenda is […]
New Management Hub in Azure Data Factory
I wanted to manually start an Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime in ADF, so I went to the edit section and then to connections. But instead of showing me my linked services (which is the default tab), it showed me this message instead: My curiosity was awakened. By clicking on “Open management hub”, you are taken to […]