Video Request: Madison, Gemini and Kilimanjaro

Posted By: Sabot | Jul 16th @ 10:55 AM
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#Jul 16th @ 10:55 AM
Sabot
Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

OK so I'm getting excited about Project Madison. I know it's going to be sold in a different way and I understand why but it would be nice to hear the reason from the project team as it is a departure for a SQL Server project.

 

But thats not the only cool SQL Server project going on right now, Gemini and Kilimanjaro are cooking away ... I would love to know how millions of rows of data are going to get into Excel on the fly?

 

So plenty of things to talk about.

 

Anyway chance that we can have a few videos on them?

#Jul 16th @ 12:47 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Absolutely. We have a SQL evangelist who will be making several pieces of interview content for Channel 9 over the coming months. Stay tuned.

C

#Jul 16th @ 12:55 PM
CplCarrot
CplCarrot
Dust Puppy

Great news but can you get them to do at least part of any demos on data sources that are more "real" I dont want to see AdventureWorks or the Gemini Film store. Keep the "make it real" moto. 

#Jul 16th @ 1:14 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

It's fun stuff. Yes Smiley

#Jul 18th @ 4:50 AM
Sabot
Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

Thanks Charles, can you please pass on some of my questions to the SQL Evanglist to ask ...

 

  • How does Madison work? - Can I really 'scale-out' a database easily?
  • Will I need to design my database schema's and write my queries to work sympathetically with Madison? - Will Madison mean changes to the syntax in LINQ and SQL?
  • Does Madison come with it's own toolset ... can I still use the existing BI toolset that comes with SQL Server 2008 EE?
  • How does the 'Landing Zone' work? - Will I need to reengineer my ETL/SSIS queries to work with it?
  • How can I avoid 'Fork-Lift' upgrades?
  • Will Madison work in a heterogeneous BI stack? Will it play nice with SAP, Oracle & Cognos?
  • Madison software and hardware are linked together, so what does this mean to the support life-cycle? i.e. Microsoft typically support software for 8 years, HP warrantee their hardware for 5 years?
  • How quickly can Madison recover in DR scenario's such as Data-Centre outage or one of the servers fails?
  • SQL Server 2008 isn't support clustering across different subnets (however Windows 2008 is) does Madison still have the same issue?
  • Does Madison work with all the new SQL Server 2008 features such as Resource Govenor and Policy Manager?
  • How can I backup Madison? Will it work with DPM (System Centre Data Protection Manager)?

 

 

#Jul 18th @ 5:01 AM
Sabot
Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

I have some multi-terabyte databases (one takes 5 GB updates daily) so I'm kind of hoping not to see AdventureWorks either.

 

But lets be fair, AdventureWorks is a very good database but for a Madison example I feel it needs to be different to demostrate its qualities.

#Jul 18th @ 11:25 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Just sent mail to them.

C

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