does hibernate support partitioning?

Question

I used Hibernate3 and Oracle database in my project and now i need to change my db from oracle to Microsoft SQl Server.

There is Partition Table s in oracle which is not available in Microsoft SQl Server. does anyone know if hibernate have a built-in support for table partitioning or not?

It seems implementing such a features in hibernate isn't a big problem. if there is no built-in table partitioning in hibernate can i implement my own table partitioning? -- any hint?

Answer 1

I think the way it was done before partitioning became a feature was to create a table for each partition and then create a view that represented the complete table, buy doing a union across all partition tables.

Should be dowable in Sql Server as well

Answer 2

MSSQL 2000 doesn't support database partitioning. But you can try some alternative way like hibernate sharding. Please learn this article from ibm for hibernate sharding.