An Introduction to New Data Warehouse Scalability Features in SQL Server 2008

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SQL Server Relational DBMS DW Improvements 
Star Join 
Partitioned Table Parallelism 
Partition-Aligned Indexed Views 
GROUPING SETS 
MERGE 
Change Data Capture 
Minimally Logged INSERT 
Data Compression 
Backup Compression 
Resource Governor 
Lookup Performance 
Pipeline Performance 
MDX Query Performance: Block Computation 
Query and Writeback Performance 
Analysis Services Enhanced Backup 
Scalable Shared Database for AS 
Reporting Scalability 

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