CHAPTER 3

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Memory-Optimized Tables

This chapter discusses memory-optimized tables in detail. It shows how memory-optimized tables store their data and how SQL Server accesses them. It covers the format of the data rows in memory-optimized tables and talks about the process of native compilation.

Finally, the chapter provides an overview of the memory-optimized tables limitations that exist in the first release of the In-Memory OLTP Engine.

On-Disk vs. Memory-Optimized Tables

Data and index structures in memory-optimized tables are different from those in on-disk tables. In on-disk tables, the data is stored in the 8KB data pages grouped together ...

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