Billed as “Microsoft’s cloud first data platform,” SQL Server 2014 will be released to manufacturing this week, with general availability scheduled for April 1, 2014. SQL Server 2014’s biggest new ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will ...

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 ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

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 predicts ...

Just a few months after launching SQL Server 2012, Microsoft is starting to peel back the covers on what's coming in the next version of its database. And while the Softies aren't sharing a due date, ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will ...