Unit testing can sometimes throw up unexpected issues that are entirely concerned with the unit tests and not the application under test. Recently I’ve been having issues with DateTime formats affecting the results of the unit tests: the format of the DateTime was different on the build server than it was on my local machine. The stored procedure could not be altered (because reasons*).
Hello! Last week I presented for the first time at a SQL User Group (SQL Supper.) There was a lot of content, and plenty of demos, and a few people came up to me afterwards and asked for the scripts. In case you were too shy to ask, or just want a simple database that uses partitioning and Clustered Columnstore Indexes, the scripts attached will provide you with such a thing.
I’ve been working with data warehouses again recently and needed to help out the rest of the team who were not familiar with partitioning in SQL Server. It’s one of those subjects that really requires hands on experience with to truly appreciate the mechanics of partitioning, and for me it especially helps if I can visualize a concept.
I’ve always thought that the best way to explain partitioning as imagining that any one table in SQL Server has a partition count of exactly one. When we actually partition the table on a range value on a column then we introduce multiple copies of that table, and that it is the meta data that is replicated for the table. And it is from this copying of the table behind the scenes that helps with archiving and query performance. This is probably not far off from how partitioning actually works.