November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
Maintaining partitions can be a challenge. Over time, as your data changes and the values of the partition columns change, you may need to add, remove, or migrate partitions. One of the benefits of partitioning is that older partitions can be quickly deleted as necessary, partitions can be moved to slower storage, and partitions can be archived to other tables. In this section, we will see how these actions can be done easily and efficiently.
One of the most common tasks that you will perform is adding partitions. As your data grows over time, you will need to increase the number of partitions defined on your partitioned table. You do this by modifying the partition function using the ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION ...
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