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.

Don't use stored procedures yet? Must be suffering from NIHS

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At just about every talk I give I always try to make several consistent statements. One of which is: ‘Whenever possible use stored procedures to access your data’.

TheServerSide Debates: Stored Procedures v Parameterized Queries

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Let me start by stating some disclaiming remarks. I'm not against stored procedures in general, I find that the choice why procedures should be used, should be based on proper facts, not on claims without any proof.

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Part 1 of a 4 part series about ADO, this is a beginner level article designed to get you started using the ADO connection object. If you haven't used ADO so far, why not see what it's all about?

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This is a good explanation on how to acctually bill a customer for your service over a credit card in your web application.

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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.

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Package Execution - Part 24

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Continuing our coverage of topics dealing with various aspects of managing SQL Server 2005 Integration Services packages, which we started with an overview of their storage and deployment, we now turn our focus to their execution.

SQL Server 2005 High Availability

by Steve Jones

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Not the traditional overview here. Steve Jones takes a look at the various high availability technologies from a different perspective.

Building Data Mining Solutions with OLE DB for DM and XML for Analysis

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This article, published in the June 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record, provides an overview of SQL Server Data Mining from a standards perspective.

Business Intelligence or Data Warehouse

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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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