I had recently received an email about InMemory OLTP Functionality in Email when I was having a vacation with my family in the Australia.
SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP LOB Datatype Enhancement
My exploration with SQL Server 2016 features are just continuing and I am delighted every other day to figure out something new been added to the capabilities which in the opinion were of limited capacity in the prior versions of SQL Server. I will spare the ranting exercise for now but will look at some of the things that caught my attention in my recent exploration with SQL Server InMemory OLTP enhancements.
SQL SERVER – Identifying InMemory OLTP Hash Collisions
It is about a few weeks back that I wrote about how InMemory OLTP Hash Collisions can happen and how it can affect performance. Here is a recap of that post for your reference and do check the same before proceeding reading this blog post.
SQL Server – InMemory OLTP Hash Collisions Performance Overhead
Sometimes the best of learnings are based on people’s questions. I always feel when questions are asked, more the learnings are. In a recent session for a customer who had implemented SQL Server 2014 InMemory OLTP in their systems, they were getting bad performance even when they were using InMemory OLTP.
SQL SERVER – InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant Powershell Script
In one of my recent interaction with my client, they were so much impressed with the fact that SQL Server has now introduced the ability to use In Memory OLTP. They said they were interested in implementing the same in their environment for a number of applications. The hardware refresh was due and they were also upgrading a number of their legacy applications which were hosted on SQL Server 2005 to the latest version as that was also due. In this blog post we will learn about InMemory OLTP Migration Assistant.
SQL SERVER InMemory OLTP: Understanding Optimistic Multi-Version Concurrency Concepts
InMemory is an awesome concept and I have been fortunate to learn about the same from my friends in the industry over blogs. It holds deep concepts and is sometimes tough to understand how the building blocks come together. I am not the only one doing the exploration, but a number of you also do and pass those learnings to me via your interesting questions. Thanks to each one of you who take a moment to ask me some of these questions that shake the fundamentals and make my understanding stronger. In the same lines, one of the readers wrote back to me after reading the MSDN on InMemory OLTP, what does the concepts of Optimistic multi-version concurrency really mean. On first thought, it looks simple, but the question was very loaded.
SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP support for Foreign Key
When InMemory OLTP was introduced in SQL Server 2014, there were a number of limitations that restricted customers to effectively use the capability. One of the most commonly asked capability was around the ability to create Foreign Keys. On first look, I thought this was always available. But while experimenting…
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