Mssql

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/11/28/available-today-preview-release-of-the-sql-server-odbc-driver-for-linux.aspx Finally … MS released ODBC driver for linux, it’s a binary, w/out any packging (no RPMs ) Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 , Documents http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451%28SQL.110%29.aspx , Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlnativeclient/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/11/28/available-today-preview-release-of-the-sql-server-odbc-driver-for-linux.aspx Finally … MS released ODBC driver for linux, it’s a binary, w/out any packging (no RPMs ) Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 , Documents http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451%28SQL.110%29.aspx , Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlnativeclient/

http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema Notes about schema used by StackOverflow.com and related websites. It is very simple, only several tables used. (most likely because there are performance problems with joins)

http://www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-45.pdf a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.