The second
SQL Relay event this year was kicked off in Reading. I again was pleased to help out at this
event. Microsoft opened with the Cloud OS Vision. The premise of how it unlocks
insights on any data, transforms the datacentre, empowers people-centric IT and enables modern business
applications. The future is about hybrid
IT, and with the data explosion and rapid evolution being underway a rapid
lifecycle is required. There is a continuous offering from private to
public cloud with various taxonomies towers; Physical, Virtual, IaaS, PaaS and
SaaS.
There was a session on the new engine taken from this paper, SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (“Hekaton”)Whitepaper for CTP2 by Kalen
Delaney.
An interesting sessionwas delivered positioning Enterprise Information Management including MDS, DQS and
Integration Services. For clarity these services were defined as
DQS
(Data Quality Services) is a knowledge driven data quality solution enabling IT
pros and data stewards to easily improve the quality of their data
MDS
(Master Data Services) is the set of data objects at the centre of business activities
(customers, products, cost, locations, assets, tasks etc.)
There were many other great sessions during the day.
