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.

Yesterday, Microsoft's Dave Campbell, a Technical Fellow on the SQL Server team, posted to the SQL Server team blog on the subject of in-memory database technology. Mary Jo Foley, our "All About ...

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

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 ...

SQL Server 2014 comes with diagnostic technologies that can examine the user’s databases and suggest the tables that should be moved to memory, based on how often they are consulted.

To ease deployments, the next version of SQL Server will include a tool that allows database administrators to designate databases or individual tables that can be run in memory. No changes will ...

But it isn't just SAP that has been promoting in-memory database technology for running conventional applications: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 offers in-memory database capabilities, which Microsoft ...

One of those proprietary pieces is HAWQ, a SQL query engine designed to perform parallelized queries on data stored in HDFS; another component, GemFire XD, is an in-memory database service ...

SQL Server 2014 comes with diagnostic technologies that can examine the user’s databases and suggest the tables that should be moved to memory, based on how often they are consulted.