In-memory ColumnStore Indexes in SQL Server 2014 can be a performance game changer for workloads involving large datasets. They can also significantly affect the amount of server resource needed to provide good query performance – but not always in the ways you’d expect.
Gavin Payne
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Should cloud services just be called...cloud services?
Ever since cloud services appeared, we’ve heard about their different types: Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service etc. While those terms help us understand a service’s capabilities – and traditional target audience – I wonder whether those terms have now been overtaken by the pace of..
Guest blog author for Microsoft TechNet
Over the last few weeks I’ve started writing guest blog articles for the TechNet UK team, around one a month on the theme they’re promoting around that time.
Managing multi-vendor technology environments
At this week’s series of SQL Server community events hosted under the SQLRelay umbrella, I presented a session titled “Managing multi-vendor technology environments”. It sounds like something large organisations have to do, which is true, but it’s now also something individual solution owners have..
Reading analyst reviews
IT vendors increasingly use reviews from analyst firms in their marketing - how should we interpret these?