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SQL Server Magaziners Senior Technical Director Michael Otey and SQL Server Content Manager Megan Keller spoke with David DeWitt, a Technical Fellow in Microsoft's Data and Storage Platform Division, who leads the lab. SQL Server 2008 R2 PDW [Parallel Data Warehouse], including analytics and semi-joins, and we are currently doing technology explorations for future versions of PDW Even though I'm part of the development organization, my mission in the lab is to really work on features that may or may not be part of future releases of SQL Server. Oracle has no real cloud expertise at all, so I think the SQL Azure product line is going to be a huge success down the road for thousands and thousands of businesses, I think as we're learning from PDW how to operate queries at scale, we will undoubtedly think about taking those technologies and moving them into the cloud, too.