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SQL Server development team has added new features to In-Memory OLTP. All these features allow you to build new applications as well as to increase overall performance and scaling. Below is the list of In-Memory OLTP improvements that are available in SQL Server 2016 CTP3.

Transact-SQL Improvements:

Query Surface Area in Native Modules for:

Disjunction (OR, NOT)

UNION and UNION ALL

SELECT DISTINCT

OUTER JOIN

Subqueries in SELECT statements (EXISTS, IN, scalar subqueries)

Nested execution (EXECUTE) of natively compiled modules

Natively compiled inline table-valued functions (TVFs)

EXECUTE AS CALLER support – the EXECUTE AS clause is no longer required for native modules

Built-in security functions and increased support for built-in math functions

Support for memory-optimized tables:

FOREIGN KEY constraints between memory-optimized tables

CHECK constraints

UNIQUE constraints

Triggers (AFTER) for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations. Triggers on memory-optimized tables are natively compiled and thus use WITH NATIVE_COMPILATION.

ALTER and sp_recompile support for natively compiled procedures, functions, and triggers

ALTER TABLE support for schema and index changes

The new ALTER TABLE … ADD/DROP/ALTER INDEX syntax is introduced for index changes on memory-optimized tables.

Full support for collations and code pages:

(var)char columns can use any code page supported by SQL Server

Character columns in index keys can use any SQL Server collation

Expressions in natively compiled modules, as well as constraints on memory-optimized tables, can use any SQL Server collation

Scalar User-Defined Functions for In-Memory OLTP

Performance and Scaling improvements:

Increased data size: a database can now have up to 2 terabytes of user data in memory-optimized tables with SCHEMA_AND_DATA

Scalability improvements in the persistence layer

Parallel plan support for Accessing Memory-Optimized Tables Using Interpreted Transact-SQL

Parallel scan supports for HASH indexes

Enhancements in SQL Server Management Studio:

The transaction analysis report no longer requires the configuration of data collectors or management data warehouse. The report can now run directly on a production database. Simply right-click on the database and select Reports -> Standard Reports -> Transaction Performance Analysis Report.

PowerShell Cmdlet for Migration Evaluation for evaluating the migration fitness of multiple objects in an SQL Server database.

Generate migration checklists by right-clicking on a database, and selecting Tasks -> Generate In-Memory OLTP migration checklists

Cross-feature support:

Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) connections can now access memory-optimized tables and natively compiled stored procedures

Transparent Data Encryption support. If a database is configured for ENCRYPTION, files in the MEMORY_OPTIMIZED_DATA filegroup are now also encrypted.

Support for using temporal system-versioning with In-Memory OLTP. For more information, see System-Versioned Temporal Tables with Memory-Optimized Tables

Query store support for natively compiled code from In-Memory OLTP workloads. For more information, see Using the Query Store with In-Memory OLTP.

Row-Level Security in Memory-Optimized Tables

There is more to come!