Storage Node Details Part II
In a previous post, Storage Node Basics, we went through how the storage for each compute node is set up. Today, we will discuss data rack capacities as SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) has a...
View ArticleCase Study: Hosting 90 Terabytes by Using SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data...
Microsoft has released the first case study of a customer, albeit internal to Microsoft, finding success using PDW. The customer is the Information Security Consolidated Event Management (ICE) 4.0....
View ArticleCase Study: Using SQL PDW to load 300GB of raw data per day.
Another SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse case study has been released. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. Executive Summary: When Microsoft wanted to add clickstream data to...
View ArticleOnline Session on HP’s SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse and PDW Appliances
In the course of life you meet lots of people and every once in a while you meet one that obviously has lived a more interesting life than most. I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Spiller a couple...
View ArticleSQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Demo
This is a nice demo done by Val Fontama’s group at Microsoft that quickly goes through some of the tasks a dba or developer may do with SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. Included tasks are Table...
View ArticleHP Appliance Architecture Overview and Performance Guide
A new white paper on SQL PDW from HP is available. The Architecture and Performance Guide for the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse powered by Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. While much of...
View ArticleSQL PDW Appliances at SQLPASS Summit
This morning the SQLPASS keynote highlighted the SQL Parallel Data Warehouse available from HP and Dell. On the stage was a one data rack SQL PDW appliance from Dell and a Test/Dev SQL PDW Appliance...
View ArticleHP EDW Compute Storage Node Options
When ordering any SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse appliance, you only have a few options. One of those options for PDW is the disk configuration for your compute storage nodes. I’ve described them...
View ArticleTechEd 2012: SQL Server PDW and Big Data Sessions
Building BI Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server PDW AU3 There was only one session at TechEd 2012 that focused solely on SQL Server 2008 R2 PDW. Artin Avanes and Matt Peebles presented a session on...
View ArticlePolybase and SQL Server PDW V2
I’m very belated on posting about PASS 2012. The PASS summit had some very exciting announcements about the next release of SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. I was at a customer site during the...
View ArticlePDW: Dealing with Nullable Distribution Keys
Choosing your distribution key is one of the most important things you do during the architecture of any database on SQL Server PDW. A distributed table in SQL Server PDW is a table with rows...
View ArticleTechED 2013 Ramp – SQL Server 2012 PDW
I’m very excited about being having the honor of discussing the changes and new features of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse at TechED. SQL Server 2012 PDW is a one of a kind where in single...
View ArticleTechED 2013 Ramp – Do You Have Big Data?
TechED is only a week away and as I’ve noted in a previous post, I have several sessions. I thought I would spend the week running up to TechED 2013 North America wetting your appetite for the...
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