Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...

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Last year, Microsoft officials said the next version of its SQL Server database would include built-in in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) technology. That was all they'd say at that point ...

New in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) improvements highlight the new features in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2016, the flagship RDBMS from Microsoft. SQL ...

As part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to attract enterprises to its cloud computing platform, the company has announced four new virtual machine (VM) images optimized to run SQL Server-based online ...

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The SQL Server in-memory solutions lead to dramatic improvements in performance, providing faster transactions, faster queries, and faster insights—all on a proven data platform architecture. This ...

Microsoft has introduced native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025, calling it a “storage revolution” due to the potential performance gains it delivers. Modern NVMe devices, including PCIe Gen5 SSDs ...

The system is based on server hardware from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle is in the process of acquiring for $7.4 billion. That apparently leaves Hewlett-Packard, which provided the hardware for the ...

Microsoft has released Native NVMe support for Windows Server 2025, unlocking 80% IOPS gains, though admins must manually ...