I’m using a clustered columnstore index (CCI) on one of my fact tables at a client. The row size is between 8 and 9 million rows and I was wondering how I could load data efficiently in this CCI using SSIS. I stumbled upon this MSDN blog post: SQL Server 2016 SSIS Data Flow Buffer […]
Category: SQL Server
Overview of Published Articles – 2016Q1
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the first quarter of 2016. R Services series: SQL Server 2016 R Services: Executing R code in SQL Server SQL Server 2016 R Services: Display R plots in Reporting Services SSIS & AlwaysEncrypted: Reading Always Encrypted Data with SQL Server Integration Services 2016 Writing Always Encrypted […]
SSIS Trick: Adding Multiple Packages to a Project
A little SSIS trick today. Sometimes you start a new Integration Services project and you want to add some existing packages to this project. So you can right-click the SSIS Packages node and choose Add Existing Package. In the dialog, you choose the File System. All you now have to do is choose the package […]
Nested Display Folders in SSAS
Recently it was announced that Power BI would now support the SSAS display folders in “exploration mode”. Exploration mode is a fancy term for a live connection to an SSAS cube or model. Anyway, great news, as it drastically improved usability of Power BI Desktop when browsing cubes. On the same day, I also found […]
Reblog: MDS – A Database Error Has Occurred
I recently came across the following error message when I tried to look at the batches in the Integration Management section of MDS: 515: A database error has occurred. Please contact your system administrator Too bad I am the system administrator on that machine… Anyway, after some searching it came out the MDS stored procedure […]
Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in a blog post. First of all we have to log start and end dates of the package to a table so we can easily calculate the duration a package took to finish. This can probably […]
The Future of SSMS
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a separate installation. You heard that right (read, probably), no more dragging along those bulky .ISO files with the entire SQL Server set-up just to install some client tools. Just like SSDT, you can now just […]
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server for me to review. Since I know both the authors and since I’m familiar with the spectacular work they do, I was happy to do so. Doesn’t mean I won’t do an honest […]
Reblog: Building the Script Component
SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People must be building them script components. The problem From time to time I have to script out some logic using a Script Component in a SSIS package. Business as usual for most developers, but since […]
Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q4
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the final quarter of 2015: Integrated Logging with the Integration Services Package Log Providers SQL Server Integration Services Best Practices and Tuning Tips Webcast Q&A Retrieve Error Column in SSIS 2016 Customize the SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 Parameter Pane SQL Server Integration Services 2016 Control […]