This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

And that's where SQL Server's In-Memory OLTP (online transaction processing) tables come in. In memory OLTP tables (I'll just call them memory-optimized tables from here on) were introduced in SQL ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

Joey on SQL Server. Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization. Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

Hekaton, Microsoft's in-memory database for online transaction processing in SQL Server, can increase processing speeds up to 30x using a system’s main memory for faster access time.