Change the PowerBI desktop default language

For whatever reason, I ended up with Romanian as the default language for PowerBI desktop (no regional settings, no browser settings, no nothing would provide a hint to the installer that it should install and set the app to Romanian). This did not help either: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/change-PowerBI-language-menus-to-english-while-maintaining/td-p/4782 I ended up in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\bin, … Continue reading Change the PowerBI desktop default language

Create certificate from backup fails on SQL Server 2008

This is so going to bite yer ass if you don't pay attention… As usual, a very quick post: I tried to create (ok, restore) a certificate from the production server to our DR server, so that the automated restores would work. When I ran the script (yes, CREATE CERTIFICATE … FROM FILE […]), I … Continue reading Create certificate from backup fails on SQL Server 2008

Say What? – “Management Studio: must be set in single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made”

Yes, I have another couple of minutes to document this weird message. I was trying to access the database properties for one of our databases. Guess what: I couldn't as there was no owner! Well, the easiest thing to do is to alter the authorization on the database; as you may have guessed it already, … Continue reading Say What? – “Management Studio: must be set in single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made”

Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. Error source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server – revisited

This blog post is waiting for me to have some time for the past couple of months by now. It did bite me back then, and so it did yesterday. "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. Error source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" … Continue reading Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. Error source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server – revisited

My mail to SQL Sentry that will win me (yeah, right) a free seat to SQL Skills training!

The amazing guys @SQL Sentry (www.sqlsentry.net)  are giving away a chance to win a free seat to SQL Skills Internals and Performance training (check out the details: http://www.sqlsentry.net/sqlskillsimmersion.asp).Of course, I decided to give it a try, so I wrote to the guys; you can check it below:"Hello there.Now, last night at around 2:30 AM I … Continue reading My mail to SQL Sentry that will win me (yeah, right) a free seat to SQL Skills training!