Madison is shipping to TAP customers

They call it their new, massively scalable data warehousing solution; they say it can load 1TB per hour and support data warehouses in the petabyte range, all on commodity hardware.  Bold claims, for sure, and I bet you're thinking, "I'll believe it when I see it."

If you can get on Microsoft's TAP list (TAP = Technical Adoption Program) and meet other undisclosed criteria, you can see it now.  Otherwise, you'll have to wait until 2010H1.  For more details, see:

http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2009/08/24/microsoft-ships-the-first-technology-preview-for-project-code-named-madison.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/madison.aspx

Aaron Bertrand

I am a passionate technologist with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. I am a long-time Microsoft MVP, write at SQLPerformance and MSSQLTips, and have had the honor of speaking at more conferences than I can remember. In non-tech life, I am a father of two, a huge hockey and football fan, and my pronouns are he/him. If I've helped you out, consider thanking me with a coffee. :-)