June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 52m
English
A range partitioned table (RPT), whose verb form is Range partitioning, is a table with a data organization scheme in which data is divided across multiple storage objects called data partitions. Each data partition is uniquely named and assigned to data, index, and LOB tablespaces. Data partitions can share tablespaces or be assigned to private tablespaces. Table partitioning improves performance and eliminates the need to create a partitioned database using the Data Partitioning feature. Other advantages of using table partitioning include: