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 ...

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 ...

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

Server:DL380 G5 dual dual core 2.33Ghz, 4GB RAMWin2K3 Std R2 SP1 x64SQL 2005 Std SP2 x64This weekend the SQL box chewed through every last bit of memory available. I came in this morning finding ...

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 has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...

By holding a database table in memory, a server can execute transactions that use that table much more quickly, because it doesn’t have to read data from nor write data to a disk. Microsoft ...

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.

During the PASS Summit 2012, a technical conference for SQL Server professionals, Microsoft announced Hekaton, an in-memory row-based data management system targeted at transaction processing (TP ...