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 ...

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 ...

PostgreSQL Partition Tables: Unveiling the Secrets of Efficient Database Management!

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database ...

I get this request a lot: We have a single, huge database and want to keep part of the data on-premises and part of the data in the cloud. Is that possible? Of course. Enough time and money can solve ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously code-named “Viper,” Thursday. As well as fully detailing functionality and pricing for the hybrid relational and XML database, the ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...