Logical Partitioning Design
The first thing you must decide is how you'll want to partition your fact tables. In 90% of the cases I've seen, the DBA simply chooses to implement a sliding window of data over time, with individual partitions each representing a reasonable time slice of the data over that time (as shown in Figure 8-2). We'll refer to this as simple partitioning.
Figure 8-2. Simple Range Partitioning Based Upon Time
Note that this is not a technical design decision, but really much more of a business requirement. What I mean is that your end-users will tell you to keep N time periods of data online and how often to load or update ...
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