On day 3 I attended an interesting talk on Hekaton, now know as SQL Server 2014, by Sunil Agarwal. Sunil showed us how Hekaton turns stored procedures into C code and loads them as DLLs for SQL Server to use. He also showed us how in-memory tables are organized in memory and explained that the reason in-memory tables were so fast was that they were not organized in a B-tree, but as a hash table. Sunil mentioned that on one test, statements against a standard table was generating over 900,000 CPU ......