Partitioning: Divide and Conquer
Darl Kuhn · Apress eBooks · 2013
Oracle provides two key scalability features that enable good performance, even with massively large databases: parallelism and partitioning. Parallelism allows Oracle to start more than one thread of execution to take advantage of multiple hardware resources. Partitioning allows subsets of a table or index to be managed independently (Oracle’s “divide and conquer” approach). The focus of this chapter is partitioning strategies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.