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Gamma provided (range, hash, round-robin). Interestingly, Bob Epstein went on to
get his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984 he was a leading
architect and proponent for client/server computing with the creation of Sybase and
the development of SQL Server that eventually grew into a billion dollar business
with the inclusion of middleware and development tools. So was the humble origins
of range partitioning!
Despite its academic origins, relatively little appears within the academic literature on
the topic of range partitioning that is relevant for database designers (though there is a
huge body of literature on theoretical aspects of horizontal partitioning). Most of the prac-
tical ideas appear ...