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 ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works.

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 ...

Of course, if your PG server is running on a virtual machine, increasing hardware resources can also be an emergency option.

Partitioning Drives Architectural Considerations Experts at the Table, part 2: Biggest tradeoffs in partitioning.

Recursive binary partitioning is a popular tool for regression analysis. Two fundamental problems of exhaustive search procedures usually applied to fit such models have been known for a long time: ...