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...

Notes From the April 19, 2016 Pinellas SQL Meeting

I drove to Clearwater (and back) yesterday to attend and present to the Pinellas SQL group. Misc notes from the...

Why my primary test environment is case sensitive.

Me: I think I’m going create a new playground instance.
Myself: Make sure you use a case sensitive (CS) collation when...

Symbols

I just want to write the setup I went through for using debug symbols within SQL Server to resolve call...

The SQL Server reports

SQL Server has plenty of reports. Reports extended more with the occurrence of the SQL Server 2012 version.SQL folks in general,...