Distributed SQL Databases
There are new platforms out there that promise a distributed SQL relational database. Steve talks about a few today.
2021-03-09
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Scalability
2020-11-20
127 reads
Scaling up vs. scaling out with SQL Server 2008
To scale your SQL Server properly means to make it bigger and better. But what is the best method for 2008?
2009-05-07
2,973 reads
Scaling Up Your Data Warehouse with SQL Server 2008
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.
2008-11-14
2,699 reads
Scalability and Goal Testing for Developers
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.
2008-05-09
2,508 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
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The Ending Substring
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