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.
To summarize - partitioning is a generic term that just means dividing your logical entities into different physical entities for performance, availability, or some other purpose. Horizontal partitioning, or sharding, is replicating the schema, and then dividing the data based on a shard key. Vertical partitioning involves dividing up the schema (and the data goes along for the ride).