In SQL Server, this feature dates back to SQL Server 2008. It allows administrators to control I/O, memory and CPU with a high degree of granularity, based on incoming user ID or calling program.

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 ...

The Madison technology came to be known as SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and is now known as Analytics Platform System (APS). The product was not exactly a smash hit.