If you ever tried to display more than 8000 characters column such as varchar(MAX) column value in SSMS output in text mode then you will quickly realize that you hit the wall. SSMS truncates anything more than 8000 chars (approx.…
Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) also known as Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) is a special version of SQL Server designed to handle petabytes worth of data. It has very different architecture compared to traditional Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) System. Check below presentation…
Microsoft PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a special version of SQL Server which is specifically design to scale for massive amount of data (upto several petabytes). PDW can not be downloaded like regular SQL server because it comes as pre-packaged…