Explain what partitioning is and what its benefit is.

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Explain what partitioning is and what its benefit is...

Answer / guest

Partitioning is a method of taking large tables and indexes
and then splitting them into smaller and more manageable
pieces.


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Explain what partitioning is and what its benefit is...

Answer / ramesh

And the Advantage are
1.Maintaincace :-Can Take Partioned tables's tablespace
offline for recovery
while other partitions are still avialable to users
Hence the Avialability

2.Performace :As the Objects are plcaed in Diffrent
Tablespaces of Diffrent Servers/locations

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