Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features.

Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features.

SQL Server 2014’s biggest new feature is in-memory transaction processing, or in-memory OLTP, which Microsoft claims can make database operations as much as 30 times faster.

More details are emerging about in-memory capabilities and how they boost performance in the new SQL Server 2014, announced at the recent TechEd 2013 conference and possibly due for a CTP this month.

Learn how to configure storage capacity and input/output operations per second (IOPS) for memory-optimized tables in SQL Server. Use the information in Estimate Memory Requirements for ...

One of the most important differentiators amongst SQL Server 2014 and its earlier counterparts is in the former’s support for in-memory database tables. When our computer systems go slow we ...

The HTDELETE wait type in SQL Server is related to memory-optimized tables and operations that involve deleting records from these tables. It is part of the In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) feature introduced ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system.

The next version of Microsoft's SQL Server will allow users to host database tables, or even entire databases, within a server's memory.