In this post, I am showing an Optimized Memory Table with allocating dedicated Memory Optimized File Group in SQL Server 2014.

In the Previous post, I discussed basic theory about In-Memory Engine of SQL Server 2014.

SQL Server 2014: What is Hekaton?

That is one of the optimized ways to the create an Optimized Memory Table in a dedicated File Group of SQL Server.

TSQL Script for creating the Memory Optimized File group and file:

USE [master]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [AdventureWorks_2014] 
  ADD FILEGROUP [Memory_Optimized] CONTAINS MEMORY_OPTIMIZED_DATA 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [AdventureWorks_2014] 
  ADD FILE ( NAME = N'Hekaton', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Hekaton' ) 
   TO FILEGROUP [Memory_Optimized]
GO

Create a sample Memory Optimized Table:

USE AdventureWorks_2014
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.tbl_Students
(
 StudentID int NOT NULL
 ,Name VARCHAR(50)
 ,Address VARCHAR
) WITH (MEMORY_OPTIMIZED = ON, DURABILITY = SCHEMA_AND_DATA)
GO

Above table will create automatically into a Memory Optimized file group. We can access this table like any other table.