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  • August 25, 2007 at 9:03 am

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    Microsoft COBOL

    Database software pre-dates Dr. Codd and the 1986 SQL standard. According to Ken North in this paper (PDF), there were a great many people working on coming up with some sort of standard for storing and working with data.

    That makes some sense as I was sure that there was something leading up to Dr. Codd's famous paper. Apparently there was a consoritum, CODASYL, that worked on basic list processing and data extensions to COBOL. The PDF lists a whole bunch of references for existing systems. I'm not sure it's much more than trivial knowledge, but I thought it might be interested to DBAs. I still see Dr. Codd as the father of the DBA career and database systems.

    More Servers

    I thought we were in the age of virtualization? I mean SUN is showing off their green data center, having gone from 2,177 servers to 1,240 and from 550 to 65 storage arrays. They've reduced their power usage by 75% as well and it seems many companies are moving towards fewer, virtualized servers.

    But then I saw this report that server sales are up. I know these are aggregate numbers and it's possible there's been an explosion of sorts in server replacement, and people aren't just buying new servers, but it's a little funny to think that vendors are selling more servers and virtualization is also catching fire.

    I'd think it would be one or the other.

    The Trinity

    Proclarity

    I saw an announcement last week that Performance Point 2007 will release in September, and I finally know what it is? It's Proclarity. Granted it's received some update and enhancement, but it's the Proclarity server and it's one third of the Microsoft BI platform. The others are Office 2007, with quite a few BI-type enhancements, and SQL Server 2008.

    That's an interesting set of products, especially if SQL Server 2008 is going to be released in Q2 of next year. That's closing on 9 months behind the other products and it's got to make you wonder how many people will look at Performance Point before Katmai ships. I think Microsoft really need to get their products in a little more synch with each other.

    Steve Jones

    Steve's Pick of the Week :

    Oracle Documentation - OK, I like picking on Oracle. So when I saw Tony Rogerson's blog on their documentation, I couldn't resist making it the pick of the week. As annoying as the treeview can be in MSDN, it's way better than Oracle.

  • August 30, 2007 at 12:28 am

    #730329

    I saw an announcement last week that Performance Point 2007 will release in September, and I finally know what it is? It's Proclarity. Granted it's received some update and enhancement, but it's the Proclarity server and it's one third of the Microsoft BI platform. The others are Office 2007, with quite a few BI-type enhancements, and SQL Server 2008.

     

    Well, not exactly.

    Proclarity is the analytics portion but Performance Point, as a product encompasses much more. PPS, Performance Point Server, as a whole is a Monitoring Analytics & Planning tool that just happens to use MS Office as its presentation layer and SQL Server as its base platform. It is quite happily running several production systems on the SQL 2005 version, SQL 2008 not required yet.

    BI is poised to undergo a massive revolution and unprecedented growth when this product releases to the general pipeline. That rattling noise you hear is the rest of the industry shaking in their boots. The thunder of footsteps is the BI vendor community rushing to make as good a deal as possible before they are odd man out.

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