I will have a more detailed write-up of everything later but still wanted to give a quick summary of the new announcements:
- Updateable Column store – Project Hekaton will be released in the next major release of SQL Server and will allow us create updateable clustered column store indexes. This is huge, 20-50 performance increases without any changes to the existing hardware and/or applications
- SQL Server SP1 is released – primary focus is to support the new BI features in Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013
- The new version of PDW will be released in H1 of 2013 with support for Hadoop and updateable column store, read whatever you will in that date…
- PowerView was shown to support OLAP cubes… More details on that will be released tomorrow