Category Archives: Appliance

SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Appliance Update 3 (AU3)

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

In the next few weeks there will be an update to the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) called “Appliance Update 3″ or “AU3″.  More than just a cumulative update, an Appliance Update is a complete refresh on the entire solution including software, hardware, … Continue reading →

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Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance for SQL Server 2012

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

As a follow-up to my blog Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances, Dell recently announced the future availability of Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance based on SQL Server 2012.  Right now only HP has a Business Data Warehouse appliance (BDW).  Basically these … Continue reading →

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Houston Area SQL Server User Group Presentation

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Scaling SQL Server to HUNDREDS of Terabytes” at HASSUG. Here is the PowerPoint presentation: Scaling SQL Server to HUNDREDS of Terabytes As a followup to a question from the presentation about clustering the appliances, I … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and HP’s Database Consolidation Appliance

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Microsoft and HP have announced another appliance, called the Database Consolidation Appliance (DBC) (see my blog about the other two appliances).  In short, this appliance consolidates databases into a single, virtual environment. In more detail: Many customers continue to struggle with … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

If you are the decision maker in your company and you are tasked with purchasing one or more servers to be used solely for SQL Server and solely as a data warehouse, be aware there are options outside of the usual … Continue reading →

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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and database consolidation solutions in a very short time, with all the components pre-configured and pre-optimized.  These appliances include all the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Explained

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), formally called by its code name “Project Madison”, is an edition of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 that was released in December 2010.  PDW is Microsoft’s reworking of the DatAllegro Inc. massive parallel processing (MPP) product … Continue reading →

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