Category 2014

Extending SSIS With .NET scripting

Earlier this year I got embarked on a book project together with Joost Van Rossum (B|T) , a dutch fellow MVP. A book about a subject that has always been very dear to me and crucial to the success of my work as an ETL developer. Namely how to extend the capacity of SSIS with […]

Continuous Deployment of SSIS packages from Visual Studio with TFS

I’ve written a few blog posts about Continuous Integration and database development using Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server. The posts can be read here. It all culminated when I did a session at SQL Konferenz in Darmstadt last week. My session was really well visited (approx 65 people when the session ended) and […]

SSAS Basic at SQL Saturday 341 Porto

SSAS Basics pre-conference day I have the immense honor and privilege to have been selected to do a whole day of preconference on thursday October 16th at SQL Saturday Porto – Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida. During this whole day of training I will give a thorough introduction to SQL Server Analysis Services together […]

23 days to SQL Saturday Edinburgh BI EDITION

This 14th of June 2014 I am so delighted to go to Edinburgh and speak at SQL Saturday #281 BI Edition. Based on the previous years feedback the SQL Saturday team decided to have a dedicated BI edition. Including session on SQL Server 2014, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics and Data Visualization So I […]

How to fix license error when attempting to add a new instance to an existing SQL Server 2014 CTP2 installation

When installing a new instance on an existing SQL 2014 CTP2 you might get this error: Access to the path ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server120License TermsSQLServer2014CTP_License_EVAL_1033.rtf’ is denied. like the one below If you hit Retry it will popup again and if you hit Cancel your whole installation is cancelled. After clicking Cancel: The workaround is […]