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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.
Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 is slated to deliver in-memory OLTP capabilities, plus a handful of other new and enhanced database features early next year.
Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2014 and said the new version is designed with 'cloud-first principles' and featuring built-in, in-memory OLTP and a focus on real-time, Big Data-style analytics.
Microsoft today announced the availability of its SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) version for testing. The product, first announced in June, continues much of the ...
Organizations wanting some of SQL Server 2014's new and improved technologies, such as its in-memory online transaction processing and high availability features, can only get them by buying the SQL ...
SQL Server 2012/2014 delivers compelling new capabilities that make an upgrade worthwhile. However, along the upgrade path, companies have also discovered key obstacles to achieving the new ...
SQL Server 2014 also has support for up to eight readable secondaries with AlwaysOn technology. The engineering team focused on making this SQL Server 2014 release "100-times faster," according to ...
Microsoft provided 'performance, scalability and diagnostics improvements' in this week's release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3.
SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced on Wednesday, about two years after the release of SP2. SP3 is a cumulative update, which means that it'll upgrade "all editions and service levels ...
In SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Edition, a SQL Server instance can use up to 128 gigabytes of memory. Additionally, this edition includes the Advanced corporate BI (Tabular BI semantic model, ...
After nearly nine months in community preview, Microsoft today released SQL Server 2014 to manufacturing with generally available planned for April 1. The new version of Microsoft’s relational ...
Originally this report was titled “Natively Compiled Queries”, but that doesn’t do justice to how deep this runs. When a memory optimized table is created, SQL Server will create a DLL ...