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Partitioning, Free Lunches, & Indexing, Part...

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Martin Farach-Colton

Review
In part one…, I presented a very brief and particular view of partitioning. I covered what partitioning is, with hardly a mention of why one would use partitioning. In this post, I’ll talk about a few use cases

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Partitioning, Free Lunches, and Indexing

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Martin Farach-Colton

Why partition?
Partitioning is a commonly touted method for achieving performance in MySQL and other databases. (See here, here, here… and many other examples.) I started wondering where the performance from partitions comes from, and I’ve summarized some

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