This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and ...

Microsoft's SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse version 3.0 was announced at the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, an event that continues throughout this week.

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse was built on a similar elastic massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that is found in its SQL Server 2016 database to provide column stores for storage ...

The single node SQL Server 2008 architectures purchased now will be the smaller data marts that will act as spokes which eventually can be connected into the large data warehouse hub to be provided by ...

The Madison technology came to be known as SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and is now known as Analytics Platform System (APS). The product was not exactly a smash hit.

Microsoft teams with Bull, Dell and HP to release a set of pretested reference architectures to make it easier to create data warehouses. The Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse is part ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is the complete database and analysis offering for rapidly delivering the next generation of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business and data warehousing solutions. It ...

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today.A few months ago, the company sped up the ...