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TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Data Warehousing Scale and Performance (Level 200)

Overview The foundation of Contoso's Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is the development of a data warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Scalability and performance of the data warehouse are important for the successful deployment of Contoso's enterprise data warehouse. This webcast covers the new features in SQL Server 2008 that support Contoso's goals, such as partition-aligned indexed views; star join query optimization; data compression; partitioned table parallelism; and grouping sets.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft Tips
Live Date	5th May 2008 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Scalability, Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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