SQL Server 2014 has a lot of shiny new features. One of the brightest is In-Memory OLTP Hekaton, something I have been optimistic about (get the pun?) ever since I saw it at the PASS Summit in 2012. These days there is no shortage of information available to day regarding how Hekaton is full of … Read more
Last week in Houston Microsoft held their annual TechEd North America conference. I attended for the 5th consecutive year, and the 3rd consecutive that I was asked to be a speaker. I delivered two sessions, Cardinality Estimates in SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines: The Important Details with Scott Klein (blog | @SQLScott). As … Read more
SQL Server 2014 is nearly here. When it ships it will come with an “In-Memory OLTP” feature. This feature is generally known by its codename: Hekaton. Why that code name? Well, hekaton is Greek for a hundred, and that was the targeted performance improvement that Microsoft set out to achieve when building this new technology. … Read more
Last week during TechEd North America Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2014 was coming…soon-ish. No release date has been set as of yet, and we have been told we *may* expect a preview in the next few weeks. Click here to be notified when the bits are ready. I’m very excited to get my hands … Read more
Cojones. That’s about all I could think of when reading this article posted to Forbes.com. [UPDATE: The link at Forbes has been taken down, probably right after this response from Microsoft went live. You can find the original Forbes article in Google’s cache by clicking here.] It was written by Bob Evans who, as luck … Read more
