I recently bought the book Factfulness – Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the world – And why things are better than you think by Hans Rosland (with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund). The book is a fascinating read and I recommend it to everyone. Not just people working with data. Not just journalists. Not […]
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Installing SSDT for Visual Studio 2017
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 […]
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 […]
Techorama 2018 Session Materials
Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely organized. Big thanks to the organizers, sponsors and attendees of course. My session on data modeling in self-service BI went really well (but I had some time left at the end). I promised to share […]
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 […]
Book Review – Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel
As preparation for my session at Techorama.be about data modeling in self-service BI, I decided to read the book Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari. The title is quite a mouthful but it gets the point across: the book mostly deals with how to correctly build […]
T-SQL Tuesday #100!
The monthly blog party is back and we’ve reached the mythical number 100. The host of this month is the Creator himself: Adam Machanic (blog | twitter). The topic is the future: what will the world be like when it’s T-SQL Tuesday #200? The very first T-SQL Tuesday was over eight years ago, which was […]