Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

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 ...

Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...