Posts Tagged ‘SQL2016’

How-to load data fast into SQL Server 2016 (2016-10-24)

What will be the absolute fastest way to load data from a flatfile into a table within SQL Server 2016? A lot has changed since my initial post on this topic many years ago, ike the introduction of In-memory optimized tables and Updateable Columnstore table indexes. Also the list of data transport vehicles to choose […]

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016 R Services (2015-10-28)

With the release of CTP3 SQL Server 2016 and its native In-database support for the open source R language you can now call both R, RevoScaleR functions and scripts directly from within a SQL query and benefit from multi-threaded and multi-core in-DB computations. Yet another SQLServer milestone! The R integration brings a lot of benefits […]