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  10. Hi James,

    I believe your following statement is somewhat incorrect.
    “MPP is also available from other companies such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata, Oracle Exadata, HP Vertica, and IBM Netezza, but those use proprietary systems, where PDW can be used with commodity hardware, providing a much lower cost per terabyte.”
    I believe Terada and Vertica utilize unmodified commodity hardware while MS PDW requires specially configured proprietary HP or Dell hardware.

    Thanks.
    Dick Schneider

    • Hi Dick

      All the hardware in a Dell or HP PDW is commodity. On one of my clients, we repurposed a piece of old kit from a V1 appliance for other workloads after we upgraded.

      Configured specifically, yes. But not custom hardware like the Netezza FPGAs

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  13. Hello,

    As you said, Dimension tables get replicated and Fact tables get distributed across the the nodes in PDW. Is the data stored in same manner in Hadoop HDFS?

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  32. I wouldn’t call Oracle Exadata an MPP device. Quoting from one of their White Papers they say: “The Exadata Database Machine X2-8 combines an outstanding scale-up and scale-out architecture by delivering a grid infrastructure containing large SMP database servers and an Exadata storage grid.”; and I don’t see MPP mentioned in any of their documentation. They have a storage grid, and the storage servers are massively parallel – and there’s nothing new about that. The processors are still SMP, and only a few of them. Still; Oracle can achieve scale-out to 504 TB as well as high performance using columnar data-store without any of the problems of MPP. It’s a good technology, ideal for OLAP (and even OLTP); but wasted, in my opinion, on Data Warehousing. MPP prices should drop dramatically once competition kicks in and we learn how to use it properly.

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  35. Hi,

    I want to insert 6-10 millions record from one table to another table in Sql Server 2012 PDW quickly…
    so what is the best way to do it within couple of min..

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