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 ...

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.

Azure SQL Database shares the same In-Memory technologies that exist in SQL Server. Microsoft first introduced In-Memory capabilities for both Columnstore Indexes and OLTP in SQL Server 2012 and ...

With SQL Server 2014, Microsoft’s approach to in-memory is to bundle it into its standard relational database platform.”We’re not talking about an expensive add-on, or buying new hardware or ...

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.

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.

If I have a SQL server process that has been running for some time, are there any methods to determining how much memory it really needs to run? I have a couple of low usage databases and I want ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...