The seven states participating in the learning collaborative, which is supported by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Childrenâs Health, are Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.
You can create a partitioned table or index in SQL Server 2016 by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. The data in partitioned tables and indexes is horizontally divided into units that can be spread across more than one filegroup in a database.
Partitioning is a general term used to describe the act of breaking up your logical data elements into multiple entities for the purpose of performance, availability, or maintainability. Sharding is the equivalent of horizontal partitioning.