In case you haven't already seen these, here are a few recent articles from SQL Server Magazine. The first one is a short but sweet tip on reviewing partitions. Find Out What's Going on Inside Your Partitions . I'm going to ask one of our PMs to download the code snippet and test it out. The second...

Since it has been a while, some items have accumulated... Marketing stuff: We recently refreshed the Project Madison home page and tweaked the other data warehousing pages to help people navigate through them. Check out the brand-new Project "Madison" data sheet . I would be interested...

Welcome! To kick this blog off I’d like to share some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Project Madison, the new MPP data warehousing solution based on SQL Server. Is Madison a Data Warehousing appliance? Is it the same thing as DATAllegro? Madison will follow many of the same principles...