Issues With Bulk Inserting Multi-Byte Characters In Fixed Width Files
Kevin Feasel
2018-09-13
Bugs , T-SQL
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Randolph West shares an example of an issue with BULK INSERT: Fellow CanadianDoran Douglasbrought this issue to my attention recently, and I wanted to share it with you as well. Let’s say you have a file in UTF-8 format. What this means is that some of the characters will be single-byte, and some may be […] Read More When Scalar Functions Go BadKevin Feasel
2018-09-11
T-SQL
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Daniel Janik head-fakes us a few times when looking at scalar user-defined function performance: I’ve read a lot of things lately pointing to scalar functions as if they were the devil. In this blog I’m going to explore if that’s the case. Let’s have a look. It’s true that in many situations a scalar function […] Read More