Very quick blog post about two tips for working with Azure (hence the title of course). I recently started up a project where the data warehouse needed to be fully in the cloud. This was an Azure SQL Database, not Azure Data Warehouse. The size of the DWH was just not big enough (although Microsoft […]
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SSIS – Error while deploying package The locale identifier (LCID) is not supported by SQL Server
A quick blog post about an issue I encountered today. I tried deploying a simple SSIS project to my local SSIS catalog. No biggie. However, at the last step of the deployment I was greeted with the following .NET error: A .NET Framework error occurred during execution user-defined routine or aggregate “deploy-project-internal”: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The locale […]
Webinar – Supercharge Your SQL Server Data Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes
I have the pleasure to announce I’ll deliver a webcast for MSSQLTips.com at the August 24th of 2017. The webinar will be an introduction to columnstore indexes, which have gained quite some importance since you can now use them in Standard Edition of SQL Server 2016 SP1 or higher. Title: Supercharge Your SQL Server Data Warehouse […]
The times they are ae-changing
I have been quite on this blog for a couple of weeks now, and there are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, it’s the holiday season and I need some rest too 🙂 Secondly, I have changed jobs since the 1st of August 2017. This means a lot of ongoing projects had […]
Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science – Continued
A couple of weeks back I blogged about my progress in the “Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science” curriculum. I’ve now finished the remainder of the courses. Now I only need to finish the capstone project. This project only occurs at the start of each quarter and runs for a month. The next runs are […]
Where’s the Trend Line in Power BI Desktop?
A quick blog post on finding where the trend line is hiding in Power BI Desktop. Docs will state it is in the analytics pane for certain types of visualization. However, it doesn’t always show up: (I really resisted the urge to post another “Dude, where is my car” image) So why did the trend […]
T-SQL Tuesday #88 – The daily (database-related) WTF
It’s the time of the month again: the T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|twitter) and the topic is “daily database related WTF”. In other words, we get to tell one of our horror stories we encountered in our career as data professionals. Let me tell you the story of a small […]
Hands-On Data Analysis With Power BI Desktop at PASS BA Marathon
I’m delighted to announce I’ll give a session at the next PASS BA webinar marathon. The topic of this marathon is Data Driven Storytelling and Data Discovery. My session will focus on working with Power BI Desktop: getting data in, cleaning it, creating a model and visualizing the data. It will be mostly demos and just […]
Webinar – Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SSIS 2016 Packages
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 […]
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 […]