SQL Server provides various options for interoperating with Oracle 1) SSIS - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including extraction, transformation, and load ...

  Engine and algorithm improvements: To improve the accuracy and stability of some predictions in time series models, a new algorithm has been added to the Microsoft Time Series algorithm. Based on the well-known ARIMA algorithm, the new algorithm...

 

Here is a slide deck I recently used to discuss using SQL Server in a virtual environment:  

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices/default.mspx

Issue: 4 instances of SQL Server installed on a 4 node cluster with any SQL Server instance possibly failing over to any other node. All 4 nodes have SSIS installed on them. (I am assuming you have not clustered the SSIS service). You want users to be...

I was recently asked this question and so did some research and here are some of the options: 1) XMLA is the protocol designed for universal access to SSAS from heterogeneous clients - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187178.aspx 2) 3 rd party...