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.

In the April 9 post to the SQL Server Team Blog, Microsoft SQL Server Technical Fellow Dave Campbell emphasized that in-memory database technologies ultimately achieve the highest value "when ...

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.

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

Here is a list of common wait types and techniques that every DBA (or wannabe DBA) should know. While there are many more wait types than listed here, understanding these will give you a leg up when ...

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.