Category Archives: PDW

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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