See virtual database and federated.
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- Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was
- Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product
- Microsoft is expanding its family of enterprise-search products with a new, free, entry-level product, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which is due to ship in early 2008. Microsoft made available on November 6 for download via its Enterprise Search Web site a near-complete release-candidate test version for...
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Microsoft-Novell survey gives their deal a thumbs-up
- Microsoft-Novell survey gives their deal a thumbs-upIt all depends who you ask and how you ask it.If you create questions that put everything in a positive light, then people will answer yes to about anything. Also, no idea how the selected the participants.For instance, this question is clearly biased: "I...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- BEA CTO: we need 'business intelligence' applied to SOA
- BEA CTO: we need 'business intelligence' applied to SOADistributed Repositories; Federated DashboardsWhile I agree wholeheartedly on the need for control read governance over SOA, and the resulting need for dashboards, I think we should also learn from BI in terms of accessing that data. I think it's...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Microsoft hits the books in Britain
- Microsoft hits the books in Britain"Microsoft hits the books in Britain". With what? With stick?NTAnother one of Microsoft'sNTTry AgainAnother one of Microsoft's "Innovations".Stop digitizing books; Encode and Deliver KnowledgeThe competitive rush to merely "digitize books" by technology and business leaders is surprising. Making those digitized books searchable is just...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-04
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