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In the next link,    http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1541 , there is a paragraph

where it mentions that clustering in SQL server is about availability, opposite about

others setups about incresasing power processing;

Is there something about it (clusters for add power processing) in SQL Server

(perhaps  in the incoming SQL 2008?) ?

Thanks 

Hi Maac2002,

MS have the High Performance Computing (HPC) initiative, which allows for transparent scale out of applications and services. This does not transcend into the SQL Server space, but scale out for performance can be looked at using technologies such as Peer to Peer Replication or distributing the database work over several servers using Distributed Partitioned Views. ORACLE has RAC to attempt to do this seemslessly to the database connections, allowing in process failover as well, but ORACLE's implementation doesn't have a 1:1 mapping into MS SQL Server.

BTW: Good information on Scaling out SQL Server: MSDN: Scaling Out SQL Server 2005

Hope this helps.