The next blocks in Microsoft's SQL Server and appliance-based data-warehouse strategy will be put in place starting this summer.
A Community Technology Preview edition of SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will be made available in the second half of this year, Microsoft has said.
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