Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep your data from mingling with system files, and as a ...

Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the drive but don’t want to have to back up all my data to ...