Like when I started writing about Dates in SQL Server, a couple of notes on partitioning has turned into a series… And not one I’m so happy with (I had a lot to cover and at the same time a lack of a bigger picture direction). Rather than ramble on about aspects of partitioning in…
In my series on partitioning, I’ve looked at creating a fact table partitioned by date. But I recently came across a case where I’d got data which had a date which should be used for the partition, however there was also a natural key in the data which should be maintained as a primary key.…
Picking up on my series on partitioning, previously I looked at Partitions in SQL Server: Creating a Partitioned Fact Table (by date) now I’m going to look into splitting an existing table into partitions. A key thing to remember is that the moving of data on disk can be time consuming and cause locks. The approaches…