Can you Hekaton? Intro to the SQL Server 2014 Analysis, Migration and Reporting tool...

Benjamin Nevarez - A Tour of the Hekaton AMR Tool

SQL Server 2014 CTP1 has a tool to help you decide which tables and stored procedures you can move to Hekaton or In-Memory OLTP. In this post I will give you a quick tour of this tool, the AMR (Analysis, Migration and Reporting). The AMR tool is integrated with the Data Collector and to enable it you have to enable the new Transaction Performance Collection Sets on the Configure Data Collection Wizard as shown next.

This will create two new collection sets, Stored Procedure Usage Analysis and Table Usage Analysis, in addition to the three system data collections sets previously available with the Data Collector.

Once you configure the Transaction Performance Collection Sets on the Data Collector you are ready to test the AMR tool. First, you need to create some database activity. In my case I am testing with the following stored procedures on a copy of AdventureWorks2012.

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In summary the AMR tool will be very helpful in providing recommendations as to which tables and stored procedures you might want to consider migrating into Hekaton. You could even upgrade your database to SQL Server 2014 and run this tool for analysis of your real performance data and iteratively move tables and stored procedures to In-Memory OLTP as required.

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A nice look at how you can eval moving your SQL Server 2014 tables/SP into the next performance level with Hekaton...

 

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