Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

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This chapter explored the firm path Microsoft is pursuing with MPP DW appliances and some additional features such as xVelocity (in-memory option) and columnstores. There are many more emerging tools coming for the DW components in SQL Server, but the current offering is just short of incredible already. It is also now easier than ever to bring together both structured data (in PDW) and unstructured data (in Hadoop) to start conquering the Big Data opportunity that you might have.

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