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Load 1TB in less than 1 hour

This project was done using SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (with SP1 beta) using the BULK INSERT command with 60 parallel input files, each of approximately 16.67 GB. The best time I got was 50 minutes. Hewlett Packard was kind enough to loan me some time one night on the machine they use to do the TPC-H tests. It is an Itanium2 Superdome with 64 1.6GHZ 9M (Madison) CPUs. For the insert tests the system was equipped with 256GB of RAM. The HP SAN configuration is rated at 14GB per second throughput.

2006-05-30

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Achieving Server Redundancy at Remote Offices

Everyone wants a highly available system, but achieving 4 or 5 9s of uptime is hard to do. Especially when you have cost limitations. New author Mark Cook takes a look at how his company analyzed the challenges and which method they chose along with some implementation details.

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2006-05-25

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Business Intelligence or Data Warehouse

Is a data warehouse required for business intelligence? Are these synonyms for the same concept? Vincent Rainardi brings us the next part of his data warehousing series that examines these two concepts and how they fit into your data analysis infratructure.

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2006-05-23

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What is Page Density

In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?

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