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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ritesh Shah
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Chapter 13. Table and Index Partitioning

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Partitioning a table with RANGE LEFT
  • Partitioning a table with RANGE RIGHT
  • Deleting and loading bulk data by splitting, merging, and switching partitions (sliding window)

Introduction

If data in a database table keeps growing and the number of records in a table reaches a count in billions or more, data retrieval and data manipulation operations on such a large table may become difficult. Due to very huge data, even simple INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations can take a long time. Tasks such as deleting certain old data and rebuilding indexes become hard to perform. Managing and maintaining query performance becomes a challenge in this situation.

In the olden days of SQL Server, ...

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