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Unique Holiday Gift Ideas for the DBA
Ring in the cheer, the New Year is near! As the holidays approach and the shopping days grow short, we think we’ve got a one-stop shopping list to help you find the perfect gift for the extra special DBA in your life! The SQL Server Holiday Gift Giving Guide includes unique gift ideas to use -
Disk and File Layout for SQL Server
Guest blog post by Paul Galjan, Microsoft Applications specialist, EMC Corporation. To learn more from Paul and other EMC experts, please join our Everything Microsoft Community. The RAID group is dead – long live the storage pool! Pools fulfill the real promise of centralized storage – the elimination of storage silos. Prior to pool technology, when -
The DBA’s Holiday Checklist
Guest Blog Post by Chris Shaw, Xtivia. Chris is an MVP Award Recipient, the author of Pro SQL Server Practices 2012, and he can be reached at CShaw@xtivia.com or thought his blog.. At this time of year, I look forward to long visits with the relatives, eating more food than should be allowed by law -
Create Our New Year’s Greeting & Win a SQL Server Swag Set
Enter the New Year Cover Photo Challenge and help us ring in 2013 with a ‘Happy New Year’ themed message to the SQL Server community! Submit an image or photo of your own design that we can use as our SQL Server Facebook page cover photo in January, and if your entry is selected as -
How Fast is Project Codenamed “Hekaton” – It’s ‘Wicked Fast’!
Recently I posted a video about how the SQL Server Community was looking into emerging trends in BI and Database technologies – one of the key technologies mentioned in that video was in-memory. Many Microsoft customers have been using in-memory technologies as part of SQL Server since 2010 including xVelocity Analytics, xVelocity Column Store and -
The Perfect Combination: SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012
Delivering a Complete Data Platform for the Modern Datacenter with Cloud OS Today’s organizations need the ability to seamlessly build, deploy and manage applications and services across on-premise and cloud computing environments. The Cloud OS platform with Windows Server® 2012, Windows Azure, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012, Microsoft System Center 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 work -
The SQL Server Community Looks to Emerging Trends in BI and Database Technologies
At PASS Summit this year Ted Kummert outlined his views on accelerating insights in the new world of data. He mentioned in his blog post, that this is an incredible time for the industry, and that data has emerged as the new currency of business. Given that it’s such an exciting time to be in -
Crutchfield Turns to Microsoft and EMC to Help Transform SQL Server to the Private Cloud
When it comes to consumer electronics gear, audio and video enthusiasts rely on Crutchfield Corporation for excellent customer service and stellar product know-how. Crutchfield powers its information-based service with a wide range of tools for its website visitors, customers and internal customer advisors. To keep improving their stellar customer service, Crutchfield develops most of its -
Oracle Surprised by the Present
I’d like to clear up some confusion from a recent Oracle-sponsored blog. It seems we hit a nerve by announcing our planned In-Memory OLTP technology, aka Project ‘Hekaton’, to be shipped as part of the next major release of SQL Server. We’ve noticed the market has also been calling out Oracle on its use of -
Watch to Win on November 28th! Enter the ‘Big Data Webcast’ Challenge
Mark your calendars for November 28th to get an inside track on how to make smarter business decisions. Join us for the new webcast “Driving Smarter Decisions with Microsoft Big Data” presented by Mike Flasko, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft and IDG Enterprise. Visit www.CIO.com on November 28th to earn a chance to win one -
PASS Summit 2012 Recap & the Milestones of SQL Server 2012
Last week marked the completion of a great week at PASS Summit 2012, the world’s largest technical training conference for SQL Server professionals and BI experts alike. During this year’s 3-day conference, nearly 4,000 attendees heard firsthand about the great advances being made toward managing big data. Over the course of two keynote speeches by -
CROSSMARK Uses SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse to Quickly Deliver Business Insights
With the growth of the consumer goods industry, sales and marketing campaigns have created large and complex databases that are hard to sift through without the right tools. As retailers approach the busy holiday shopping season, they need to have insights into the effectiveness of their campaigns. Retailers need to know what market trends are -
Seamless insights on structured and unstructured data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse
In the fast evolving new world of Big Data, you are being asked to answer a new set of questions that require immediate responses on data that has changed in volume, variety, complexity and velocity. A modern data platform must be able to answer these new questions without costing IT millions of dollars to deploy -
Breakthrough performance with in-memory technologies
In a blog post earlier this year on “The coming database in-memory tipping point”, I mentioned that Microsoft was working on several in-memory database technologies. At the SQL PASS conference this week, Microsoft unveiled a new in-memory database capability, code named “Hekaton1”, which is slated to be released with the next major version of SQL