This year SIGMOG keynotes are available online at https://services.choruscall.eu/links/sigmod1106.html

• June 13^th: A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)
• June 14^th: Internet-Scale Storage (I highly recommend this session)
• June 15^th: SIGMOD Awards (this includes a segment on the SQL Server team)
• June 16^th: Managing Scientific Data

How do large-scale sites and applications remain SQL-based? is a recent article from Michael Rys (Blog|Twitter) that highlights the relational SQL Server based web-scale deployment at MySpace. I have talked before about how MySpace uses Service Broker as a reliable messaging backbone to power the communications between +1000 databases, allowing them to scale-out and partition the user information into individual shards. Here are some more details about this architecture:

• MySpace Uses SQL Server Service Broker to Protect Integrity of 1 Petabyte of Data
• Developing Large Scale Web Applications and Services(video)
• MySpace SQL Server Service Broker (slides)

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