As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

Horizontal partitioning isn't new to SQL Server. Horizontally partitioning SQL Server 7.0 and later tables to multiple files and filegroups improves performance by reducing average table and index ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...