Category SSDT

Speaking at SQL Saturday Lisbon #583

In a few days, I will be heading towards Lisbon to speak at the annual SQL Saturday which takes place on Saturday March 11th. On March 9th and 10th, there are 3 preconference workshops held by some of the very knowledgeable people in the industry, so if you are near you don’t want to miss Friday […]

Speaking at SQL Saturday #526 Rochester

This year, I decided to cut down on the number of SQL Saturdays I would attend, SQL Saturday #526 Rochester is one of the few I submitted to and I was so delighted to get selected. I will present 2 sessions at the event on May 14th. I haven’t been upstate New York since 1986 […]

SQL Nexus Call for speakers is live

Nexus noun – “That which unites or binds”         After several months of work with a team of great people and companies: -Kenneth M. Nielsen (b|t) -Mark Broadbent (b|t) –ASAP design –Funky.biz –Microsoft –bloodyuseful We have the honour to launch the call for speakers for the next generation data platform conference in Copenhagen. The […]

SQL Saturday Denmark #413 post-event

This is the day after, the day after. We’ve all slept the Sunday out and are ready for our day jobs again! Thanks Thanks you for a great event to: The sponsors, who made everything possible The volunteers for giving a hand when we need it The speakers for using their weekend and money to […]

Danish SQL User Group General Assembly

For many years, the Danish SQL Server User group (under the PASS umbrella) has been stagnating !! So much stagnating that other successful initiatives have started. Some of my fellow members and myself really want to reinvigorate this group, which had become more and more dusty over the years.  This is why we decided to […]

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 […]

Speaking at SQL Konferenz 2015

In a few weeks I will be heading to Darmstadt (near Frankfurt) for speaking at the SQL Konferenz 2015. This is my first time speaking at this event but from what I’ve heard from the previous y:ear this is a great event. The event is organised by PASS Germany and some of my great community […]

SQL Rally Nordic 2015

3rd and 4th of March : 2 days of SQL Server conference delivered by some of the best speakers on the planet. 2nd of March : 1 day of pre-conference History Started in 2011 by some of the pioneers of the European SQL Server community : Raoul Illyes and Johan Åhlén from SolidQ the SQL […]

Deploying Tabular models

1 Introduction The purpose of this document is to document a viable way to deploy tabular models from say development to test to production. The lifecycle of a tabular project can be illustrated as follows : 2 Development All development of tabular models happens with Visual Studio where the developer uses a local instance as […]

Automating database tests with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server

This is the third post in the series about database development and testing using SQL Server Data Tools and Team Foundation Server. Post 1 : Continuous Integration with SSDT and TFS Post 2 : Unit testing with SQL Server Data Tools You can run test in Visual Studio to test the quality of your build. […]