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 ...

Windows' built-in Disk Management does not have a feature to merge partitions. The method of deleting an adjacent partition ...

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

Replacing an HDD with an SSD is something you might want to do, but reinstalling Windows and all your installed apps from ...

Horizontal partitioning separates rows by key fields; for example, all Arizona records are maintained in one index and New Mexico records in another, etc., or account numbers from 00001 to 49999 in ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Supports for audio & video Preview: After installing this update, users can preview most types of videos and audio files, such as "mkv", "webm", "mts", "flv", "3gp ...

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. Restoring Windows to its brand-new ...

Data exists in a time and a place. We are using an increasing amount of applications that are run on data that is both time-stamped and location-stamped. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) ...