I'm happy to spin up 10 app servers rather than make the single database faster, but I'm not sure these apps would be offloading much from the database just by doing "joins" in-memory.

Although the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility has always passed joins to the DBMS, it is now possible to pass joins to the DBMS without using Pass-Through. Beginning in Version 7, the LIBNAME ...

Another way to increase efficiency is to extract the DBMS data and place it in a new SAS data file, assign SAS indexes to the appropriate variables, then to join the two SAS data files. Output for ...

Microsoft is building its SQL Server database so it will have an in-memory database to compete with the likes of SAP's Hana and Oracle's Exadata. Codenamed “Hekaton” the new in-memory database ...

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