Microsoft's SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse version 3.0 was announced at the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, an event that continues throughout this week.

Herain Oberoi, group product manager for the SQL Server business group at Microsoft, tells 5 Minute Briefing that "an investment in the SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse today enables customers to ...

This was made possible by integrating data movement capabilities directly into the SQL Server engine, explained Tomas Talius, a Microsoft Azure Data partner architect, in a separate July 12 blog post.

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be ...