February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
In vertical partitioning, the columns of the tables are partitioned to achieve performance and better management of the database. Vertical partitioning can be achieved in two ways. The first one is by normalizing tables. Instead of having too many columns in the table, columns can be divided into multiple tables by dividing the data. The second one is by creating separate physical file groups for defined columns in the table. Vertical partitioning is currently not supported in MySQL 8.
Let's look at a few of the benefits associated with partitioning:
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