Drive partitioning is not the hot thing that it once was.

A single partition feels simple until something goes wrong ...

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 market ...

I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep your data from mingling with system files, and as a ...

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

hi,<P>i am dual booting win2k and linux and have each os on a different hdd. On the win hd i have a os and a data partition. I can and have mounted the os partition using the "mount -t /dev/hda1 ...

Data Partitioning is a very useful feature in SQL Server 2005 and beyond. I have discussed this database feature in previous blog entries but it is also available in SQL Server Analysis Services which ...

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