IIS generates logs where are recorded many information about HTTP requests such as what Url was called, when the request happened, what is the origin, etc. If you want to analyze information from log files you can use use text search, regular expressions, or some log analysis tools; however, this might be tedious job. SQL Server… Read more
CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEXES (CCI) provide extreme data compression. In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server vNext you can create CCI on tables with NVARCHAR(MAX) columns. Since JSON is stored as NVARCHAR type, now you can store huge volumes of JSON data in tables with CCI. In this post, I will show you how you can get… Read more
Line-delimited JSON is one common format used to exchange data between systems and for streaming JSON data. SQL Server can be used to export content of tables into line-delimited JSON format…. Read more
Clustered column store indexes (CCI) in SQL Server vNext and Azure SQL Database support LOB types like NVARCHAR(MAX), which allows you to store string with any size, including JSON documents with any size. With CCI you can get 3x compression and query speedup compared to regular tables without any application or query rewrites. In this… Read more