Chapter 17: Oracle Partitioning and Parallelism

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Overview

This chapter will cover Oracle Partitioning and some parallel processing within those partitions. There are also various unique actions which can be performed with partitioning, such as moving and exchanging entire chunks of data at the speed of a Unix mv (move) command. Obviously the storage subsystem determines the speed of a move command. However, separate partitions can be plugged in and out of a partitioned object. We will start with a brief introduction as to what exactly can be done with partitioning, following on with some experimentation showing the performance benefits of Oracle Partitioning.

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