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.

The latest version of Micrsosoft’s flagship database has in-memory capabilities across all data workloads. SQL Server 2014, released Tuesday, delivers “breakthrough performance for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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