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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 ...

Data Partitioning in SQL Server was introduced in the 2005 release. This was a feature that had been in Oracle and IBM’s DB2 for a while, but Microsoft is positioning to compete in the VLDB ...

Leo knows that data is safer if you don't keep it on the same partition as Windows and your programs. Last week I explained fixing this in XP; now I'll tackle Vista.

The data that resides on the remote partition (in this example, the on-premises partition) will have noticeable latency issues. Remember, performance is determined by the slowest component.

Signed, Separation of data and OS Dear Separation, I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep ...

On the win hd i have a os and a data partition. I can and have mounted the os partition using the "mount -t /dev/hda1 /mnt/win" command but do not know how to access the data partition on that drive.