Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions

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Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions: "Microsoft's upcoming SQL Server 2008 release includes several new features and enhancements that are extremely valuable in data warehousing and business intelligence systems — as those already leveraging these capabilities on other database platforms will attest. The key performance enhancements include database compression, partitioning, and star schema optimization. In this article I briefly describe the benefits of these three features in any DW/BI deployment."