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 ...
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 ...
When using the removeToPrimary filegroup strategy during import, tables that reference a partition scheme have their partition scheme replaced with [PRIMARY]. This is incorrect — partition schemes are ...