Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...

Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 is slated to deliver in-memory OLTP capabilities, plus a handful of other new and enhanced database features early next year.

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 ...

Other in-memory features mentioned by the Microsoft SQL Server team include "enhanced in-memory ColumnStore for data warehousing," which supports real-time analytics and "new enhanced query processing ...

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

If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even ...

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

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