What is In-Memory OLTP?

SQL Server In-Memory feature is unique in the database world. The reason is very simple; because it is built-in to the databases' engine itself. It is not a separate database solution and there are some major benefits of this. One of these benefits is that in most cases you don't have to rewrite entire SQL Server applications to see performance benefits. On average, you will see 10x more speed while you are testing the new In-Memory capabilities. Sometimes you will even see up to 50x improvement, but it all depends on the amount of business logic that is done in the database via stored procedures. The greater the logic in the database, the greater the performance increase. The more the business logic sits in the app, the less opportunity there is for performance increase. This is one of the reasons for always separating database world from the...