Slow Startup, Failover, and Restore Times with In-Memory OLTP


When In-Memory OLTP came out, I worked with it briefly, and I remember coming away thinking, “Who in their right mind would actually use this?” I was so horrified that I wrote a presentation about it and gave it at a couple of conferences:

Many laughs were had, but obviously that didn’t make me any friends at Microsoft, ha ha, ho ho. I figured I was done with Hekaton, and I wouldn’t ever have to see it again because y’all all saw the video, and you’d never be crazy enough to implement that feature.

<sigh>

Well, here