SQL Server in Retail: Scaling for the E-Business Industry

Most retailers are rapidly expanding their online applications to meet exploding growth in e-business. A robust e-business system has its own extensive hardware and system requirements, yet it also requires extensive support from lines of business applications and business intelligence software. An e-business system must be ready to handle huge user and transaction loads.

With a scalable system, designers can start small, and then grow the system as large as necessary. This paper addresses scaling up and scaling out, and how Microsoft SQL Server can help retailers support growing databases and applications.

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