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Advanced MySQL 8
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Advanced MySQL 8

by Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Partitions

Here are some tips:

  • It is not recommended to use PARTITIONS until you know how it will help you
  • Do not use PARTITIONS unless you have more than one million records
  • Do not use more than 50 PARTITIONS on a table; otherwise, the performance will be impacted
  • The PARTITION RANGE mode is the only method that is useful and perfect for your needs in general; it is also easy to manage
  • SUB-PARTITIONS are not necessarily useful, except in specific cases
  • The partition key should not be the first column of an index; otherwise, maintenance affects performance

Techniques:

It is wrong to claim that partitioning will solve performance problems. Partitioning divides a table into several small tables. However, the size of the table is rarely a ...

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ISBN: 9781788834445