Few enterprise data warehousing (EDW) professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that ...

The post-genome era provides us with technologies for collecting vast amounts of molecular information from biological samples, clinical phenotype and collected lifestyle data of individuals. The goal ...

Federation Members comprise the collection of SQL Azure databases that contain related tables with partitioned data, called Federated Tables. A Federation Member also can contain replicated lookup ...

The ability to use data in place is a great solution for using heterogeneous data in the cloud. But it's easy to create performance and security flaws when you do so It’s often the first problem you ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

The General Services Administration is working to create a place where data providers can go to see if their data fits into a set of standards others might be already using. This new effort, the ...

With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

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