It’s already some weeks ago since I presented this session about PDW and R at the SQL Server Conference in Darmstadt. The conference itself was very nice, we had about 350 participants, mostly from Germany. I wanted to take the... Continue Reading →
…this was the title of my session I had at the SQL Rally Nordic. Together with my friends Gerhard, Alexei and Thomas and a crowd of the best speakers in the PASS community we had the chance to present in... Continue Reading →
I will continue my blog series about SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse. If you missed my earlier posts of this series you can find them here: Rock your data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Rock your... Continue Reading →
As I already stated out in my first post I want share some insights about the new SQL Server 2012 version of Parallel Data Warehouse. In this post I will talk about some new features as well as architecture changes.... Continue Reading →
I had the chance to do a customer POC on a very early version of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse and like to share the new features for PDW as well as the impressive results we got. The good... Continue Reading →
As you probably already heard there will a new version of the Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse available in the first half of 2013. So let me quickly go through the highlights of Version 2. Functionality The new version will be... Continue Reading →
The first part of the PDW lessons learned series gave an introduction about the goals of the POC, a customer introduction, an overview of the requirements and the test cases. Within the second part I gave some more insights on... Continue Reading →
After the introduction of the POC itself and the high level test cases I will now go into more detail of every test case. But let’s start with the migration first. Database and SSIS Package migration to PDW In order... Continue Reading →
The first version of Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse is out for a while, now I had the chance to get my hands on it during a customer POC. Because PDW is an appliance solution the software is hardware bounded. You... Continue Reading →
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