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 ...

A business I support recently purchased an add on to the pos software they use. It uses .net 3 and sql server express 2005.Their support tech came out and installed some new hardware (not related ...

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.

More details are emerging about in-memory capabilities and how they boost performance in the new SQL Server 2014, announced at the recent TechEd 2013 conference and possibly due for a CTP this month.

Right now they have a load balance on the memory for 90% usage to not let people on that server. I think you will have a lot of performance issues way before 90% usage.

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 ...

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

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

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.