We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...

Introduction This document provides a step-by-step guide to implementing table partitioning in SQL Server. The process includes adding filegroups, creating partition functions and schemes, making ...

As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

Using SQL Server Management Studio To restore files and filegroups After you connect to the appropriate instance of the [!INCLUDE ssDEnoversion], in Object Explorer, click the server name to expand ...