Data Partitioning is a very useful feature in SQL Server 2005 and beyond. I have discussed this database feature in previous blog entries but it is also available in SQL Server Analysis Services which ...
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 ...
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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...