Partition 500gb of database stored in SQL Server

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Hello

I have 500GB of database stored in SQL Server. Because it has too big a database, it takes time to update and insert data. Now the case is that I want to partition the data. So which partitioning techniques should I use? Or is there any other technique which will improve my performance?

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