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Data Partitioning in SQL Server was introduced in the 2005 release. This was a feature that had been in Oracle and IBM’s DB2 for a while, but Microsoft is positioning to compete in the VLDB market ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...