Learning ADF part 1

I'm learning ADF. I know the basics of what it does, but I'm in no way really knowing of what to do. In this blog series I'll try and record the steps I've followed to get to grips with basics and maybe more. Transferring your data from on premises to Azure I'm assuming you've got … Continue reading Learning ADF part 1

Bulk insert and the Foreign Key mystery

Today i ran into a weird thing. One of our clients found out that with using SAP Data Services (an ETL tooling by SAP) where you can use the bulk load setting, foreign keys on a table got disabled. Demo To test this out, i've created a small demo CREATE TABLE BASE_TABLE ( ID INT … Continue reading Bulk insert and the Foreign Key mystery

T-SQL Tuesday-118, What are your wishes for SQL Server?

This month the T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Kevin Chant (b | t) and he asks us what our fantasy feature would be for SQL Server To answer that question, the starting point is the way i work with SQL Server. My company is mostly working with ETL software, meaning the databases are 99% datawarehouses. … Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday-118, What are your wishes for SQL Server?

Deletes on large table

I had to help a collegue out today. He had to delete about 12 million rows on a 13 billion row table. And his statement (delete from [table name] where spec_id = 1) never got anywhere. First thing i tried was to encapsulate the statement in a transaction. This transaction was put within a while … Continue reading Deletes on large table