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Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016

November 15, 2017November 15, 2017 Koen Verbeeck 14 Comments

For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to install the add-in for SQL Server 2012 on a machine that has Office 2016 64-bit installed. I clicked on the link in the MDS webpage which send me to the download page of the MDS […]

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Can’t Connect to Analysis Services – Invalid Connection Information

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 Koen Verbeeck 9 Comments

I have a new installation of SQL Server 2017, along with an instance of Analysis Services Tabular 2017. I tried to connect to the SSAS instance for the first time, and I was greeted with the following error: “Invalid connection information to establish the server connection” I was using SSMS 17.3 to connect to the […]

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Error Installing SQL Server 2017

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Koen Verbeeck 1 Comment

A quick blog post on an error I got when installing SQL Server 2017 RTM. I ran the set-up for the usual features (database engine, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and MDS), but the installation failed for the database engine and SSIS. During the set-up, I received two pop-ups notifying that something was wrong. A quick look […]

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Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 Koen Verbeeck 10 Comments

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 […]

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Power BI Service error: “This visual has unrecognized fields”

April 22, 2016September 21, 2016 Koen Verbeeck 4 Comments

UPDATE: IT SEEMS THE BUG HAS NOW BEEN FIXED. THREE HOORAYS FOR THE POWER BI TEAM! Recently I stumbled across a quite annoying error in the Power BI service. I uploaded two working reports from Power BI Desktop to the cloud service. Each report connects to its own cube and both cubes are in the […]

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MDS 2016 CTP 2.3: tiles greyed out in Manager

September 15, 2015September 15, 2015 Koen Verbeeck 1 Comment

I’m toying around with MDS 2016 CTP 2.3 in preparation of my SQLServerDays session about what is new for BI in SQL Server 2016. I uploaded the sample models into MDS and I opened up Master Data Manager in Internet Explorer to try out some of the new features. The Manager has received a make-over […]

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Reblog: The shaky bug in SSIS

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 Koen Verbeeck Leave a comment

SQLKover update: I’m reblogging this a bit earlier (it’s a quite recent blog post) because I still see people with this issue. Also, it seems that sometimes the fix doesn’t work. You may or may not have noticed it after installing SQL Server 2012/2014: the designer interface in Visual Studio 2010/2012 has had a make-over. Nothing […]

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