Monthly Archives: November 2011

SQL Server Partitioning for large production tables

SQL has introduced from SQL 2005 versions, data partitioning. It is a new feature meant to improve the performance of SQL queries, data management, index management and storage management. The greatest benefit of Data partitioning is that you can have a highly available system while extracting, moving, removing information from tables with hundreds of millions of rows without creating blockages.

Due to a wrong estimation of number of rows… Continue reading