If you’ve got a partitioned table in SQL Server, and you now want to run a query that includes the partition number on each row returned by the query, you can use the $PARTITION system function to do just that.
The $PARTITION function returns the partition number into which a set of partitioning column values would be mapped for any specified partition function.
You can therefore use it in your SELECT statement to return the partition that each row belongs to.
If you’ve previously created a linked server, but you now want to update one or more of its server options, you can do that either via the SQL Server Management Studio GUI or with T-SQL.
If you choose to do it with T-SQL, the sp_serveroption system stored procedure is what you need.
In SQL Server, you can use the FORMAT() function to return the short day name from a date. FORMAT() is a T-SQL function that enables you to format dates and numbers to a specified format.
This function returns its result as a string. Specifically, it returns it as either a nvarchar or null as the case may be.
Continue readingAs of mongoimport version 100.0.0, you can delete documents in MongoDB based on an imported file. To do this, use delete mode.
When you use delete mode, if an imported document has the same _id value as an existing one in the collection that you’re importing into, the existing document will be deleted.
You can also specify another field or fields (other than the _id field) to be the matching field if required.
When you run queries In MongoDB, you have the option of limiting the documents returned. This is where you specify a maximum number of documents to be returned by the operation.
For example, if an operation would normally return 2,000 documents, but you specify a limit of 1,000, then only 1,000 documents are returned. However, if the operation would only return say, 500 documents, then all 500 are returned (because they don’t breach the 1,000 document limit).
This is a bit like using the TOP clause in SQL Server, or the LIMIT clause in MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
If you’ve encountered error Msg 7411, Level 16 in SQL Server, it’s because you need to enable “RPC out” on the linked server that you’re trying to execute code on.
Continue readingIn MongoDB, if you need to delete a document in the mongo shell, you can use:
db.collection.remove() methoddelete commanddb.collection.deleteOne() methoddb.collection.deleteMany() methodThis article provides examples of each.
Continue readingMongoDB offers various methods for counting the documents in a collection or view. There are also some aggregation operators that enable you to count incoming documents from a previous aggregation pipeline stage.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, there are a few ways to get metadata of the result set from a query. This includes the data type of the columns returned by a T-SQL query.
In particular, the sys.dm_exec_describe_first_result_set system dynamic management function is a good choice for such a task.
When using mongoimport, you can use the --jsonArray parameter to import an array of JSON documents.