Columnstore Indexes: Finally Awesome in SQL 2016

Columnstore indexes are amazing for optimizing the performance of large rowcount queries that would otherwise look like a SCAN operation in...

Broken Left Join

Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...

Promotions and Conflicts of Interest

I noticed my co-worker, friend, and PASS board member, Grant Fritchey, posted a note on members of the PASS Board...

Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure

For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...

Loading Data into Clustered Columnstore Index with SSIS

I’m using a clustered columnstore index (CCI) on one of my fact tables at a client. The row size is...

Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS – The Evolution of Data Platform

As announced a couple of hours ago, a new edition of the famous online webinars 24 Hours of PASS will...

JSON in SQL Server 2016 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Microsoft introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. I was excited to see...

A Speaking Sabbatical

Lately I’ve been thinking about taking a break from doing presentations. Not sure what triggered it – maybe just a sense...

Payment and the Board

If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...

MongoDB – Insert,Update,Upsert and Delete Examples – CRUD

In MongoDB we have to use either insert() or save() method to add the document to a collection

Insert Single document
> db.employee.insert( 
    {"employee_id":1101, 
    "name":"Prashanth", 
    "sal":90000, 
    "dob": newDate(1983,2,3,5,20), 
    "department": 
        [ 
            'DB Amdin','DB Developer' 
        ], 
    "Location":"New York"});
Insert Multiple...