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 ...

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA. Unlike yours, this particular one is located here. I’d double check but if you’re ridiculously confident don’t bother.

The changes will affect SQL Server 2019 users, plus users of SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2016 as well with regard to the PolyBase Scale-Out Groups feature. Big Data Clusters Ending March 2025 ...

This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent of the XML data type and XQuery. You still need to construct and shred the XML data before you can use it; this is functional but not simple.