What is database partitioning?

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Database - What is database partitioning? - August 29, 2008 at 18:00 PM by Amit Satpute

What is database partitioning? 

Database partitioning involves dividing logical database into distinct independent units to improve its performance, manageability and availability. 

Database - What is database partitioning? - Jan 08, 2010, 15:55 pm by Vidya Sagar

What is database partitioning?

Database partitioning is the process of dividing logical database / its elements into independent parts. Database partitioning is done for manageability, performance reasons. A popular application for database partitioning is distributed database management system. Every partition spreads over multiple nodes and local transactions on the partition can be performed by the users. This process increases the performance of sites which involved with regular transactions. The database partitioning can be done by building databases which holds data of partitions.

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