It’s common practice to return the results of a scalar function as a column in a SELECT query. SQL Server Enterprise offers “partitioning,” which allows you to split database tables into ...

Second, the query optimizer will give up and return ... Not everyone will be able to take advantage of this tip, which relies on partitioning in SQL Server Enterprise, but for those of you who ...

Horizontally partitioning SQL Server 7.0 and later tables to multiple files and filegroups improves performance by reducing average table and index size. Placing each filegroup on an individual disk ...