Weird, somehow I lost text in the middle of this post after it was posted… I created it a few days back and set it to post later… Corrected.

So I put in the following abstract for Devlink (and may for SQL Saturday Orlando and/or PASS Summit.) I don’t know if I will get accepted, but I am pretty excited to work on this topic one way or another…

“With SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has added a major new feature to help optimize OLTP database implementations by persisting your data primarily in RAM. Of course it isn’t that simple, internally everything that uses this new feature is completely new.  While the internals of this feature may be foreign to you, accessing the data that uses the structures very much resembles T-SQL as you already know it. As such, the first important question for the average developer will be how to adapt an existing application to make use of the technology to achieve enhanced performance. In this session, I will start with a normalized database, and adapt the logical and physical database model/implementation in several manners, performance testing the tables and code changes along the way. “

My plan is to start with a moderately straightforward table design, and implement a set of scripts that create a bunch of data. Starting out with normal on-disk tables using both ad-hoc calls and stored procedures, I will morph the design from just changing some of the tables to in-memory, then change the procedures to use in-memory wherever possible and test any changes we need to make to the physical structures. Another aspect to the process will be errant data. Part of the experiment will be to have a smattering of bad data to simulate real live programmers and users doing real live stuff.

I think I know the main content already, but I expect to pick up a lot of knowledge between now and then (which I will attribute, naturally!) I have at least 5 months, before I would need to present it, so who knows if I will change my mind. Along the way, I will blog semi-frequently about the progress, including what I have learned, code samples, philosophies, etc.