Dropbox has grown tremendously in the last few years and Steve Jones talks about a concept of running with less headroom as a way to cope with that rapid growth. Is it something you'd be interested in with a SQL Server?  Read more...

This article is an attempt to explain the application of new XML support in SQL Server 2005 for efficient data storage and performance.  Read more...

To scale your SQL Server properly means to make it bigger and better. But what is the best method for 2008?   Read more...

This paper discusses how to use SQL Server 2008 to get great performance as your data warehouse scales up. We present lessons learned during extensive internal data warehouse testing on a 64-core HP Integrity Superdome during the development of the SQL Server 2008 release, and via production experience with large-scale SQL Server customers.  Read more...

This paper introduces the new performance and manageability features for data warehousing across all these components. All these features contribute to improved scalability.  Read more...

Data warehouses aren't just exploding in size, they're also supporting more users and increasingly complex queries, all in shorter time frames. Here's how to make sure yours is ready to scale.  Read more...

In San Francisco, Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal of SQLSkills will be presenting a two and a half day, hands-on workshop covering database infrastructure and scalability.  Read more...

Often developers are tasked with not only developing functional code, but also with ensuring that the code they develop scales well and performs in the application environment.  Read more...

A brief introduction into the world of scalability, presenting at a high-level the various options  Read more...