Hekaton

Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP, Hekaton) – the solution to everything?

My complete last week was dedicated to XTP (Extreme Transaction Processing), better known as Hekaton, that is introduced with SQL Server 2014. My main goal of the week was to get a better understanding of Hekaton, the current limitations, and the scalability of this amazing new In-Memory technology. This blog posting covers the following things …

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First steps with Extreme Transaction Processing – Hekaton

A few hours ago Microsoft released the first public CTP of SQL Server 2014. The download and the installation went very smooth, the only new restriction is that you are not allowed to install the CTP 1 version in parallel with any other SQL Server version. Aaron Bertrand has blogged about that new behavior. In …

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