Massive parallel processing (MPP) is the future for data warehousing. So what is MPP? SQL Server is a Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) solution, which essentially means it uses one server. MPP provides scalability and query performance by running independent servers in parallel. That … Continue reading →
SQL Server 2016 was recently announced. Top new features include: Always Encrypted protects data at rest and in motion. With Always Encrypted, SQL Server can perform operations on encrypted data and best of all, the encryption key resides with the … Continue reading →
At the recent Microsoft Build Developer Conference, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced the Azure Data Lake. It is a new flavor of Azure Storage which can handle streaming data (low latency, high volume, short updates), is geo-distributed, data-locality aware and … Continue reading →
Analytics Platform System (APS) is Microsoft’s massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse technology. This has only been available as an on-prem solution (see video Overview of Microsoft Analytics Platform System). Until now. At the recent Microsoft Build Developer Conference, Executive Vice … Continue reading →
In case you were wondering what happened to the TechEd conferences, Microsoft is now bringing together the best of previously individual events – the Management Summit, the Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and TechEd conferences – and then taking it to … Continue reading →