Server:<BR>DL380 G5 dual dual core 2.33Ghz, 4GB RAM<BR>Win2K3 Std R2 SP1 x64<BR>SQL 2005 Std SP2 x64<BR><BR>This weekend the SQL box chewed through every last bit of memory available.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

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 ...

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.