To effectively use partitioning, you must design your partitions thoughtfully. The key is to determine the right column on which to partition, often a date or a key with a wide range of values.

SQL partitioning can be done based on different criteria, such as ranges, lists, hashes, or keys. For example, you can partition a table of sales records by date range, customer category, product ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance]. You can modify a partition scheme in SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance by designating a filegroup to ...

Partitioning uses partitioning columns to divide a dataset into smaller chunks (based on the values of certain columns) that will be written into separate directories. With a partitioned dataset, ...

While the integration of the Power Query engine into Analysis Services Tabular 2017 and Azure Analysis Services with modern data sources will certainly bring a lot of benefits, I think it’s fair to ...