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• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-05

  Bill Graziano took the stage and promised us the shortest keynote yet. He started by giving thanks to outgoing board members Greg Low, Pat Wright and Kevin Kline. Wayne Snyder took over and gave an emotional homage to Kevin, who gave 10 solid years to Read More... Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:24 PM by AaronBertrand | 3 Comments Filed under: PASS, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and beyond, keynote, column store, SQL 11

• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-04

  Rushabh Mehta, PASS President of Finance What makes PASS run? He mentioned CA and Microsoft as founding members. But the overwhelming response from the crowd: we're more interested in free drinks. Stressed financial transparency ... members can log in Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:31 PM by AaronBertrand | 2 Comments Filed under: PASS, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and beyond, BI

• Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2009-11-03

  Highlights We were told that there is going to be a November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. There are two new editions planned for the RTM release: DataCenter Edition (256 logical processors, unlimited virtualization) and Parallel Data Warehouse Edition (formerly Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:53 AM by AaronBertrand | 4 Comments Filed under: PASS, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and beyond, Madison, gemini, TPC

• Madison is shipping to TAP customers

  They call it their new, massively scalable data warehousing solution; they say it can load 1TB per hour and support data warehouses in the petabyte range, all on commodity hardware. Bold claims, for sure, and I bet you're thinking, "I'll believe it when Read More... Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 4:06 PM by AaronBertrand | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008 and beyond, data warehousing, Madison