Jean-Pierre Voogt

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Jean-Pierre is a SQL Developer and Data Analysis Team Lead from South Africa. He is MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate) and owner of a bachelor’ degree in Software Engineering with good experience with Database design, Data warehousing and development. He has a great passion for SQL server and he enjoys solving complex business problems.

Jean-Pierre speaks at the Johannesburg SQL User Group, trying to give back to the SQL community as much as possible. He loves to tinker with SQL Server and see how he can approach a problem with a different angle.

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Running with running totals in SQL Server - July 29, 2016
The new SQL Server 2016 sample database - July 22, 2016
Storing Twitter feeds with Microsoft Flow in Azure SQL Database - June 29, 2016

Running with running totals in SQL Server

July 29, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Voogt

Background

Running totals have long been the core of most financial systems, be statements or even balance calculations at a given point in time. Now it’s not the hardest thing to do in SQL Server but it is definitely not the fastest thing in the world either as each record has to be evaluated separately. Prior to SQL Server 2012, you have to manually define the window/subset in which you want to calculate you running total, normally we would define a row number with a window on a specific order or a customer depending on the requirements at hand.

The new SQL Server 2016 sample database

July 22, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Voogt

Background

We have all learned to love and hate the trusty Bike shop database. Almost every demo or presentation pertaining to SQL Server we do, we use the AdventureWorks sample database. Almost every code sample on books online references AdventureWorks for illustrations and practical explanations of a feature. When SQL Server 2005 was released Microsoft replaced the old Pubs & Northwind Sample databases with a more complete and more feature rich database called AdventureWorks. Ever since we have been using this new sample database for almost everything we want to test. Microsoft has now given us an even better sample database called WorldWideImporters, which utilises almost every SQL Server feature I can think of from Temporal Tables to In-Memory table.

Storing Twitter feeds with Microsoft Flow in Azure SQL Database

June 29, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Voogt

A couple of weeks ago I got this idea to capture twitter feeds and store it in a relational database structure. I wanted to be able to do some trend analysis, to see what days certain hashtags get used more than other as well as to be able to go back to certain tweets and see what I can learn from them. I tried to get the Twitter API to work for me, but had no luck. So I came across Microsoft Flow which seems to make this process very easy.

Format DBMail with HTML and CSS

June 23, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Voogt

Background

In my organization, the developers send a lot of database generated emails for informational purposes to ensure that everything in the system is still working 100%.We can call them production messages. Normally the way the email is presented is not important as it is only meant for the developer to help with system health check, but every now and again a business user would ask for the report (which was never meant to be an actual report) and then we would include the business user in the distribution list for this email.

Stretching temporal history tables in SQL Server 2016

June 20, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Voogt

Background

With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 a lot of new features were introduced, one of which was Temporal Tables, a feature that gives you the ability to view the state of your data at a given point in time. This means you can go back in time with your data. Another very popular feature is Stretch Databases which allows for remote archiving of data to Azure Stretch region.