Data Warehousing features in SQL 2008

2009

TL; DR

SQL Server 2008 has a ton of great features to help you in your data warehousing endeavours. In this session find out what they are and how you can best use them.

Session Details

Features to be covered include:

Resource Governer
Compression
STAR Joins
Parallelism Improvements
Minimally Logged Inserts
Read Committed Snapshot Isolation Enhancements
SSIS Improvements
Anything else that springs to mind...:o)

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