| Publisher | Microsoft | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | HTML | Date added | 10 Aug 2007 |
| Topics | Application Servers, Web Development and Design, Database Management | ||
| Downloads | 45 | ||
The giant bookseller - with revenues of $2.8 billion in 1997 - faced a formidable hurdle in moving to the Web nearly two years after its primary competitor. This new business model presented major technology challenges to Barnes & Noble, and the company's late start gave it little time to experiment. It needed to get a workable Web site - including a database that could manage millions of book titles and handle thousands of simultaneous hits - up and running fast. By scaling to terabyte-sized multiprocessor clusters and with new scalability features such as dynamic row-level locking, intraquery parallelism, distributed query, and Very Large Database (VLDB) enhancements, SQL Server 7.0 gives barnesandnoble.com the headroom needed for its ever-growing databases and history-recording requirements.
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