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 ...
The SQL Azure Team plans to release SQL Azure Federation features in piecemeal fashion starting with a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of version 1 in 2011. The current plan is for the CTP 1 to ...
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 ...