In this case, a number of partition-folders were created, one for each date, and under each of them, we got 15 part-files. Behind the scenes, the data was split into 15 partitions by the repartition ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

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 ...