SQL Server Data Services

December 6, 2008

SQL Server Magazine has a Web log. The post “Report from PASS: Interview with Tom Casey: General Manager of Microsoft Business Intelligence” contained several interesting items about SQL Server. You can read the article here. Here’s what I found interesting:

The Kilimanjaro release will scale better and support up to 256 logical processors
The next release of SQL Server will offer an improved interface for business intelligence
Most users rely on Excel and SQL Server will feature Microsoft Excel with Add-ins enabling BI data access and end-user collaboration
A data warehouse appliance will be rolled out as well.

My take away from the Web log post was that Microsoft is addressing some long standing issues of interoperability among its products. Will the upgrade end Excel hell; that is, no mechanism for managing Excel workbooks? No. Will SQL Server’s scaling issues be resolved? Maybe. Will the data warehouse appliance become a must have component? No, because it seems to be a placeholder product, not a solution. In my opinion, Microsoft will have to do more to match other vendors with business intelligence systems and data management tools. The upgrade is not likely to pull Microsoft closer to Aster Data, for example.

Stephen Arnold, December 6, 2008

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Database, Microsoft, News, Technology

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