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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

By holding a database table in memory, a server can execute transactions using that table much more quickly because the database server doesn’t have to immediately read data from, nor write data ...

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.