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 ...

While the use of partitioned and drip pricing is sometimes characterized as systematically harmful to consumers, the practice may in fact carry benefits.

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