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Mastering MariaDB
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Mastering MariaDB

by Federico Razzoli
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 10. Table Partitioning

When a table becomes too large, queries on that table become slow.

One possible solution is table partitioning. This technique involves splitting a table into several physical files or tablespaces. Each file contains a fraction of the table data and thus becomes faster to read. Both read and write access to individual partitions will be much faster.

In this chapter, we will discuss:

  • Partitioning types supported by MariaDB
  • Subpartitioning
  • How to split each partition into multiple files
  • Maintenance of partitioned tables
  • How the optimizer takes advantage of partitioning

Support for partitioning

All versions of MariaDB support version partitioning. However, there are two cases where partitioning is not available for a MariaDB ...

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