| Publisher | Intel | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | Date added | 02 Mar 2009 | |
| Topics | Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Database Management | ||
| Downloads | 90 | ||
Whether consumers are buying a car or acquiring licensed software, the costs of these goods may vary depending on the dealer or store, the geographic region's foreign exchange rates, taxes and other factors. Microsoft Corporation's World Wide Licensing and Pricing group wanted to better understand those variations. In August, 2005, the group deployed an 11-dimension Volume License Pricing and Sales data warehouse cube based on a pre-release version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and running on a four-way, 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor-based server. A four-way, 64-bit Intel Xeon processor-based application server handles reporting and user access.
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