Splitting a database table into multiple segments for performance or manageability.

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effective mysql table/index design for 35 million rows+ table, with 200+ corresponding columns (double), any combination of which may be queried

I am looking for advice on table/index design for the following situation: i have a large table (stock price history data, InnoDB, 35 million rows and growing) with a compound primary key (assetid ...
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Why is MySQL order by performance poor within a single partition of a partitioned table?

I have to store some sequence numbered data in MySQL. I have about 300,000 data items per day for about a 10 year span. Let's say the table structure is just sequence number (a big int) and data (a ...
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ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed

ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed because column does not have the same ANSI trimming semantics in tables... Does anyone knows how to fix that on already existing table full of data? Well, I've ...
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Archive partition before delete it?

I have manage to create an event and with the following scripts could both create and delete the partition. The issue now I need help on how to save the partition before its deleted? Should I use ...
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MySQL partitioned tables?

I have a database that supports a web application with several large tables. I'm wondering if partitioned tables will help speed up certain queries. Each of these tables has a colum called ...
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Will Partitions and Indexes on the same table help in performace of Inserts and Selects?

I have a table containing the list of visitors and this table has the following information. Visitor Browser Information Visitor Location Information Visitor Time Information No of Visits I have a ...
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Are there any disadvantages to partitioning on financial year?

Our current set up has one table per financial year (May 1- April 30). Each table has approx 1.5 million rows. We have about 8 years of data, and will obviously be adding each year. The majority of ...
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Add partition works but not the drop partition

We have set an event as below. What we notice is that the add partition is working well as we can see on a daily basis the partition list is growing but the drop partition is not working well any ...
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Why won't Oracle alter the size of a column that is used for sub partitioning?

I am trying to resize a varchar2 column, when I get an ORA-14265 error: ORA-14265: data type or length of a table subpartitioning column may not be changed With Oracle providing the unhelpful: ...
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How do I know if my database partitioning is done well?

I have a sneaking suspicion that the guy who wrote the partitioning functions at my place of work did a fairly poor job. For certain queries (maybe 20% of them) we see incredible performance boosts ...
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How to take partitions or filegroups out of service

I'm an experienced SQL Server DBA but new to partitioning, and I have a couple of questions. Using SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. I've inherited a large customer metrics database that grows ...
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How to structure Master/Detail tables for performance without denormalizing?

Some Background Info We have a set of tables that holds all the transactions for our system, TransactionHeaders and TransactionDetails. There are roughly 80k Transactions a day which translates to ...
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MySQL Partitioning Performance

I have a MyISAM table with billions of rows that is still causing me problems because the indexes, even after I shortened them as much as possible, do not fit in my 64GB of RAM. I am unable to index ...
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How to make Greenplum 4.2.3 only scan the intended partition?

When I uses unnest() in a View, and uses that View in a select statement, Greenplum seems to fail in only searching for the intended partition and search through all the partition of the main table ...
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Dynamic MySQL partitioning based on UnixTime

My DB design includes multiple MYISAM tables with measurements collected online, Each row record contains auto-incremented id, some data and an integer representing unixtime. I am designing an aging ...
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MySQL Partitioning, Reorganize Max Value partition (Known Bug / Feature)

I have written a crone job which reorganizes last max value partition every week into 2 new partitions , one for the previous week , and one for the future data (new max value partition which ...
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Partition guides and possible solutions?

We have a table called tblLink which is the main table and have its primary key in many other tables as shown below. The issue now we want to keep only the latest 3 months data and the rest should be ...
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why size of data files is not grow up even existing data?

currently, I created 1 partition table with 1 file group and 4 data files (4 quarter/year). Data have been inserted successfully. And everything is right when I check records belong to which ...
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Pros/Cons of Using Table/Index Partitioning in SQL Server

We have a number of tables that were partitioned primarily to reduce problems when purging data (via sliding-window partitioning / truncate). I have found a number of caveats that come with ...
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Find the partition where data lives in MySQL

Is there a way to select the partition name where a specified record actually lives in? The idea is something like: SELECT <PARTITION_NAME> FROM mytable WHERE <where_condition> I found ...
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When to split a large table

I run the SQL Anywhere DBMS, and we have a table of about 10 columns(normal text, timestamps etc). However, in my use-case, every single day, the table gets 2160000 new rows. It's also crucial that ...
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MySQL Partitions

I've done a lot of work with MySQL but generally on a much smaller scale than this, so please excuse my ignorance. We've got an InnoDB table which is currently storing ~3.5 million rows, which I know ...
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MySQL partitioning by customer

We have a product that uses different MySQL schemas for different customers, and a single Java application that uses different persistence units for one for every customer. This makes it difficult to ...
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Renaming the system generated partitions during interval partitioning

I am trying to rename the system genrated partition names(generated during interval partitioning). I try to do this while my table is live(data read and write is happening). I need two scripts. I ...
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Partitioning for queue tables

I have a queue table where entries are added by a service with the WAITING status and a due date, which may be seconds to weeks from now. Those due entries are consumed and updated with the PENDING ...
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How Best to Parition Temporal Data for Access By Date

The latest edition of the High Performance MySQL book has this to say about paritioning a large table where all the hot data is clustered temporally: Suppose you have a table with an ...
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XML errors while copying dependents during a redefinition to an interval partitioning scheme

I am partitioning an existing table. I used the following process: Checks DBMS_REDEFINITION.CAN_REDEF_TABLE(...); Successful Create duplicate table CREATE TABLE "USER"."MYTABLE_ONLINE" ( ...
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How to check on my partitions?

I am a newbie into partition. First I have a table with auto increment with its primary key and many other fields. I wanted to partition based on dataInsertDateTime column. It have me error so I had ...
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Partitioning and Sub-partitioning in MySQL

I want to partition a table by month and sub-partition by day. When new data is added for a new month, I don't want to manually update the database. When I initially create my database, I have data ...
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MySQL Partioning: Is there a performance tradeoff between number of partitions and size of each partition?

I have a large table (several 100 million rows) that I would like to efficiently partition. My question is whether there is a tradeoff between partition size and number of partitions. As far as I ...
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Partition manager utility/script?

Does anyone know of any Utilities or scripts out there for partition management. Most of our partitioning is range based and I have a set of home grown scripts to expand as needed as well as maintain ...