SQL Server clustered columnstore does not have bad write performance, measured on Azure SQL Database using ExoBench. Bulk inserting 1M rows ran faster on columnstore than rowstore (3.3s vs 6.1s).

Massive is currently on v2.0. To obtain the old v1.0 code, please select the v1.0 branch in the GitHub menu or click here. Massive.Shared.cs Massive.YourDatabase.cs, e.g. Massive.SqlServer.cs for SQL ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

For the last 7 years, I have worked professionally with Tableau, and for 7 years we have been asked questions about write back to a database. Can it be done, and what does it require? This blog post ...

This paper aims to establish a relative study between a relational Microsoft SQL Server database and a non-relational MongoDB database within the unstructured representation of data in JSON format.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...