The latest solutions in big data processing demand working with increasingly large amounts of data in ever shorter periods of time. In 2012, MS SQL introduced the ColumnStore (CS) Index.

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

The Parallel Data Warehouse version of SQL Server 2008 R2 will be sold preloaded on servers as a data warehouse appliance. Using the DataAllegro technology Microsoft acquired in 2008, it will scale ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.