An interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented ...

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 ...

SQL Server partitioned views make rows of all partitions appear as a single table; distributed partitioned views enable partitioning data across multiple linked servers, not just filegroups, for ...