Querying and data manipulation

Now that we have a memory-optimized table, the next logical step is to start querying the table and manipulating the data stored inside it.

We have two methods of interacting with these memory-optimized objects. Firstly, we can issue standard T-SQL queries and allow the SQL Server Query Optimizer to deal with accessing this new type of table. The second method is to use Natively Compiled Stored Procedures.

Querying and data manipulation

Figure 11.4: Overview of the SQL Server engine illustrating Query Interop between In-Memory OLTP and "normal" OLTP

In Figure 11.4, we can see a simplified diagram of a query that is either querying "normal" tables ...

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