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 ...

The Database Hub provides a single, centralized management hub for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and more. SQL databases ...

Another interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by ...

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 ...

Partitioned Compute is a new feature in Fabric Dataflows that allows you to run certain operations inside a Dataflow query in ...

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