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 ...

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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DGIST developed a new graph-based database partitioning method and its system implementation showed 4.2 times faster performance on average than Apacke Spark SQL DGIST developed a core technology that ...

EaseUS Software, a leading software provider of data recovery, data security, and disk management, announced the release of its reliable partition manager software, EaseUS Partition Master v20.8, with ...

Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the drive but don’t want to have to back up all my data to ...