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 […]
Speaking at GroupBy Conference – Spring 2020
I’m excited to announce I’ll be speaking at the virtual GroupBy conference this year. Thanks everyone who voted! I’ll be speaking at the European day on May 12th at 10AM UTC. My submitted session with the most votes was: The modern Cloud Data Warehouse – Snowflake on Azure (you can find more information about this […]
Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 12: IS DISTINCT FROM
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share. It might be some SQL function that I’d really like to be in SQL Server, it might be something else. Often you want to check the […]
Vote for GroupBy Conference May 2020
GroupBy is a virtual conference, for the community and by the community. Content is focused on the Microsoft Data Platform. Speakers can submit sessions for two events: GroupBy Europe on May 12th 2020, which focuses on European time zones. GroupBy Americas on May 13th 2020, which focuses on timezones relevant to the USA. After speakers […]