The Modern Data Warehouse
In recent surveys by TDWI Research, roughly half of respondents report that they will replace their primary data warehouse (DW) platform and/or analytic tools within three years.
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Evolving your SQL Server Data Warehouse to the Next Generation, High Performance Solution, the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW)
Last week, we highlighted a whitepaper that focused on the performance benefits of SQL Server PDW and how it differs from traditional SQL Server. -
How Does SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Deliver the Performance that it Does?
Last week, we introduced you to SQL Server PDW, the version of SQL Server built specifically for high performance data warehousing that delivers performance gains of up to 50x compared to traditional data warehouses. -
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP: Memory Management for Memory-Optimized Tables
Memory-optimized tables must fully reside in memory and can’t be paged out. -
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Update
With the release of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) and the commercial release of Visual Studio 2013, we are excited to announce new preview releases of SQL Server Data Tools to support both database and business intelligence projects. -
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP: Nonclustered Indexes for Memory-Optimized Tables
SQL Server 2014 CTP1 introduced hash indexes for memory-optimized tables. -
New In-Memory OLTP Sample for SQL Server 2014 CTP2
To help you get started with the new In-Memory OLTP feature, we created a sample around sales order processing based on the AdventureWorks sample database. -
IO Resource Governance in SQL Server 2014
Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 to achieve predictable performance in a multi-tenant environment, to support mixed workload patterns, to provide mechanisms and tools to deal with runaway queries, and to enforce resource limits for CPU and memory. -
Get to Know the SQL Server that’s Purpose Built for High Performance Data Warehousing and Big Data Analytics – the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance
If your business relies on data, you know that it is a constant challenge to store, manage, and analyze it effectively as your data continues to grow. -
In-Memory OLTP: High Availability for Databases with Memory-Optimized Tables
Starting with SQL Server 2012, the new offering of AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) suite of features have enabled Tier-1 customers with mission critical applications to achieve their availability goals with SQL Server with an easy to deploy and manage solution. -
Revolutionizing City Planning in the 21st Century with Windows Azure, HDInsight, and SQL Server
If you’ve ever played a video game where you manage a virtual city, you understand how real-time insight into services including emergency response teams and transportation is needed for effective city planning. -
Customers get Faster and Better Insight into More Data from More Sources with Windows Azure HDInsight Service
Collecting Big Data is significant only if you can make use of it.
Explore SQL Server 2025
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