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OraclepartitioningisadivideandconquerapproachtoimprovingOracle
maintenanceandSQLperformance.Anyonewithunpartitioneddatabasesover
500gigabytesiscourtingdisaster.Databasesbecomeunmanageable,andserious
problemsoccur:
SQLmayperformpoorlyWithoutOraclepartitioning,SQLqueries
withfulltablescanstakehourstocomplete.Inafullscan,thesmallerthe
Oraclepartition,thefastertheperformance.Also,indexrangescans
becomeinefficient.

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TherearemanycompellingreasonstoimplementOraclepartitioningforlarger
databases,andOraclepartitioninghasbecomethedefactostandardforsystems
over500gigabytes.Oraclepartitioninghasmanybenefitstoimprove
performanceandmanageability:
StableOraclepartitioningisaverystabletechnologyandhasbeenused
inOraclesinceOracle8,backin1997.EachnewreleaseofOracle
improvesOraclepartitioningfeatures.

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Robust?Oraclepartitioningallowsformultilevelkeys,acombinationof
theRangeandListpartitioningtechnique.Thetableisfirstrange
partitionedwithOraclepartitioning,andtheneachindividualrange
partitionisfurthersubpartitionedusingalistpartitioningtechniquewith
Oraclepartitioning.UnlikecompositeRangeHashOraclepartitioning,the
contentofeachsubpartitionrepresentsalogicalsubsetofthedata,
describedbyitsappropriateRangeandListOraclepartitionsetup.

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FasterbackupsADBAcanbackupasingleOraclepartitionofatable,
ratherthanbackinguptheentiretable,therebyreducingbackuptime.
Lessoverhead?BecauseolderOraclepartitionedtablespacescanbe
markedasreadonly,Oraclehaslessstressontheredologs,locksand
latches,therebyimprovingoverallperformance.Formoredetails,read
RobertFreeman'sdiscussionofreadonlytablespaceperformance.

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Easiermanagement?MaintenanceofOraclepartitionedtablesis
improvedbecausemaintenancecanbefocusedonparticularportionsof
tables.Formaintenanceoperationsacrossanentiredatabaseobject,itis
possibletoperformtheseoperationsonaperpartitionbasis,thusdividing
themaintenanceprocessintomoremanageablechunks.
FasterSQL?Oracleispartitionaware,andsomeSQLmayimproveis
speedbyseveralordersofmagnitude(over100xfaster).

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Indexrangescans?Oraclepartitioningphysically
sequencesrowsinindexordercausingadramatic
improvement(over10xfaster)inthespeedofpartition
keyscans.

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Fulltablescans?Oraclepartitionpruningonly
accessesthosedatablocksrequiredbythequery.

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Tablejoins?Oraclepartitionwisejoinstakethe
specificsubsetofthequerypartitions,causinghuge
speedimprovementsonnestedloopandhashjoins.

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Updates?Oracleparallelqueryforpartitions
improvesbatchloadspeed.

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Insum,Oraclepartitioninghasaveryfastpaybacktimeandtheimmediate
improvementstoperformanceandstressreductionontheOracleservermakesit
aslamdunkdecision.

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