Until 'Madison' arrives, Microsoft SQL Server runs faster on…

Visitors of the latest BI summit of the Seattle based software giant were awed by a first demo of project Madison, which is basically a Windows/SQL Server based version of the recently acquired appliance vendor Datallegro. Microsoft showed how a 150 TB (yes, that's Tera, not Giga) database could perform on a 24 node MPP system. Unfortunately, the announced release date is 'first half of 2010', so considering who is telling this we shouldn't expect anything capable of putting into production before… More information...

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