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Can a Bookseller With a 125-Year Heritage Transition to the Fast-Paced E-Marketplace?
Overview The giant bookseller - with revenues of $2.8 billion in 1997 - faced a formidable hurdle in moving to the Web nearly two years after its primary competitor. This new business model presented major technology challenges to Barnes & Noble, and the company's late start gave it little time to experiment. It needed to get a workable Web site - including a database that could manage millions of book titles and handle thousands of simultaneous hits - up and running fast. By scaling to terabyte-sized multiprocessor clusters and with new scalability features such as dynamic row-level locking, intraquery parallelism, distributed query, and Very Large Database (VLDB) enhancements, SQL Server 7.0 gives barnesandnoble.com the headroom needed for its ever-growing databases and history-recording requirements.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2007 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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