One way to think of In-Memory OLTP is that it has the performance of a…
You’ve probably heard of the SQL Server project Hekaton. It’s an in-memory solution for data, introduced in SQL server 2014. One cool feature besides the durable in-memory tables, is the possibility to create non-durable in-memory tables. As you realize, you can get a lot of performance improvement with the in-memory solution, but what is the benefit with non-durable tables as the data will be lost in case of failure? Well, one option is to use non-durable in-memory tables as staging tables in your ETL solution as you don’t care about the staging data in case of a system crash.
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/Håkan Winther
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