By: Al DeLosSantos
Thanks for the update Curt. The SAN versus DAS link provides very helpful background information and industry discussion… Regards, Al D.
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When you write “(Parallel Data Warehouse, nee’ DATAllegro)” does this mean that DATAllegro technology made it into the PDW product? I am skeptical that much would be useful from a product that re-wrote...
View ArticleBy: Curt Monash
Mark, The details on that are unknowable from the outside. Microsoft told me in the mid-1990s that they’d already celebrate “Sybase Liberation Day”, because the last lines of Sybase code were gone. A...
View ArticleBy: Mark Callaghan
Regardless, it is nice to see Microsoft innovate to keep up in the world of data management. Thanks for the summary.
View ArticleBy: David DeWitt
Mark, 1) There is no DatAllegro code left in PDW. None. As Naughton’s characterizes the system, a classic example of the “stone soap” parable. 2) For details on how queries are executed in PDW works...
View ArticleBy: Mark Callaghan
I guess I need to read the paper now. Using SQL for query fragments is very interesting. I encountered a DBMS that migrated from using SQL to something else to do the opposite of what PDW wants. It...
View ArticleBy: Stuart Bunby
Thanks for the update Curt – an interesting read Is PDW a recommended platform for running OLTP workloads? Or would Microsoft typically advocate SQL Server on a non-appliance platform while Hekaton is...
View ArticleBy: Curt Monash
Stuart, I would think the latter. Since PDW seems to plan every database operation twice (once globally and once at every individual node), it’s not ideal for transactional updates.
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