Best Enterprise Datawarehouse

We currently run a MASSIVE enterprise data warehouse on SQL Server 2000 and it is struggling a bit with both user queries and daily loads.
Need opinions on
1. Is SQL Server the best product for the job
2. What are the alternatives
CheersWhat is massive ? Also, what is your hardware specs ?|||And what are you doing with it? Are you creating cubes off of it?|||Have about 7 + Terabytes of data - growing at 100 gb a month

Team of dedicated App Dev staff designing and developing OLAP cubes and publishing on the intranet using third party software|||What type of cubes ? What version of sql are you using ?|||What window do you have available to perform the daily loads? Approx how long does each load take?|||At that size I am sure MS would love to help you (and use you in their marketing :) )|||You can easily deploy SQL Analaysis Services in this case, check ver 2000 for more enhancements and information on MS SQL homepage.

HTH|||No one seems to have opinions on any other products other than SQL Server? I guess it is a SQL Server forum but like I have already said - this is our current platform and is Struggling !!!!|||Originally posted by aldo_2003
Have about 7 + Terabytes of data - growing at 100 gb a month

Team of dedicated App Dev staff designing and developing OLAP cubes and publishing on the intranet using third party software

Gotta ask...what's the subject of the data?

3rd party software?

I don't think (damn it, again) that ANY 3rd party software plans for anything that massive...

And EVERYONE is writting adhoc queries...right?

"This sounds like a job for "Super-Silver bullet""

And yes, MS would love to talk to you....|||Originally posted by aldo_2003
No one seems to have opinions on any other products other than SQL Server? I guess it is a SQL Server forum but like I have already said - this is our current platform and is Struggling !!!!

Be happy using Sybase IQ (http://www.sybase.com/products/bi/sybaseiq) !
=> T-SQL compliance
=> DSS database
=> performance++|||You have given very few information regarding your environment and the reasons you are struggling, other blaming SQL. We would be glad to help you if you could tell us more about your data warehouse. So we can see where your bottleneck is. But if you are looking for the answer of 'Yes, you need to switch to O.... and S.. platform', please go to O.... forum. Thanks.