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• Did You Know? It’s Anniversary Time Again

  And it coincides with a new book of mine being published. So I decided I would give away some presents! Today marks 27 years that I have been working with SQL Server. On this day in 1987 I started working for the Sybase Corporation in Berkeley, California, Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2014 12:48 PM by Kalen Delaney | 7 Comments Filed under: internals, books, prizes, anniversary, raffle, In-Memory OLTP

• Geek City: SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (“Hekaton”) Whitepaper for CTP2

  Last week at the PASS Summit in Charlotte, NC, the update of my whitepaper for CTP2 was released. The manager supervising the paper at Microsoft told me that David DeWitt himself said some very nice things about the technical quality of the paper, which Read More... Posted Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:05 PM by Kalen Delaney | 10 Comments Filed under: internals, indexes, whitepapers, Hekaton, In-Memory OLTP

• Geek City: SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (“Hekaton”) Whitepaper

  Tech Ed isn’t even over yet, and my new Hekaton Whitepaper is already generating questions I can’t answer yet! Here are the two questions that were in my inbox this morning: 1. The whitepaper says “There are other wait types, such as waiting for a log Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 05, 2013 10:42 AM by Kalen Delaney | 21 Comments Filed under: internals, whitepapers, Hekaton, In-Memory OLTP