PostgreSQL window functions make it possible to rank records, calculate running totals, and analyze data without combining ...

Federation consists of a collection of all SQL Azure database instances that contain partitioned data having the same schema. The T-SQL script in "How to Create a Federation with Customers, Orders 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 ...

Keith Fiske gave a talk (with slides) about the state of partitioning — splitting a large table into smaller tables for performance reasons — in PostgreSQL at SCALE this year. He spoke about the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk ...

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 ...

Today, you can rent a 50GB SQL Azure database for $499.95 per month, but the SQL Azure Team isn't talking publicly about future scale-up options. Instead, Microsoft recommends that you scale out your ...