Just perusing Microsoft’s site when I happened to see that the Parallel Data Warehouse appliance from HP looks to finally be ready to go. (Dell may have one as well, but couldn’t find specs on it to verify). If you’re interested in this, check out some of the links to read about what they claim it can do and scale to…like over 500 TB? Wow amazing. I saw a Fast-Track Data Warehouse implementation at the MTC in Las Colinas, but this is of course completely different. Where Fast Track was more like a certification for a warehouse setup, this particular creation is a full on setup (including hardware) that can massively scale.
Very interesting, although most of us will never get a chance to work with something like this, you probably find this amazing, considering that I started with the product back with version 6.5; to see this thing grow to become what it is now compared to what it was, even with SQL Server 2000, is really awesome. For an implementation like this, I wonder if all of that experimentation from the Transaction Processing Performance Council back in the day led to some of these awesome achievements? While they basically built throw aways to achieve insane throughput, you’d have to think that some of the ground breaking things done by that team, Jim Gray, and other pioneers, led to what we have today, including Parallel and Fast-Track.
Click on some of the links and do some ready on these breakthroughs and see what you think of these “ginormous” database setups. Boooyaaaah!
Thanks for visiting,
Lee Everest
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http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/solutions-technologies/Appliances/HP-ssbi.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/solutions-technologies/appliances/hp-pdw.aspx
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/en/sm/solutions/enterprise-overview.html
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