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Considerations of Data Partitioning on Spark during Data Loading on Clustered Columnstore Index

March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Sumit

This article showcases how to take advantage of a highly distributed framework provided by spark engine, to load data into a Clustered Columnstore Index of a relational database like SQL Server or Azure SQL Database, by carefully partitioning the data before insertion.

Fast loading data into Azure SQL: a lesson learned.

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Davide Mauri

I'm preparing a series of post and samples on how to properly load data into Azure SQL using Azure Databricks / Apache Spark that I will start to publish very soon, but I realized today that there is a pre-requisite that in many cases, especially by developers new to the data space, is overlooked: good table design. Wait! If you're not a...

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