Ed Wagner (6/6/2013)
Now that's a pretty cool idea I hadn't even considered. What's the performance like when compared to a physical table? I haven't tried it, but I'd imagine that, since everything's done in memory, you'd completely avoid the cost of disk I/O.
This discussion is almost an exact duplicate from the other thread. 🙂
As long as the definition is memory there is 0 reads. If it has to load the definition, it is still faster than a physical read from a table. Super duper fast.
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