CHAPTER 18Partitioning
As the number of rows in your tables grows, the management and performance impacts will increase. Backups will take longer, recoveries will take longer, and queries that span an entire table will take longer. You can mitigate the administrative and performance issues for large tables by separating the rows of a single table into multiple parts. Dividing a table's data in this manner is called partitioning the table; the table that is partitioned is called a partitioned table, and the parts are called partitions.
Partitioning is useful for very large tables. By splitting a large table's rows across multiple smaller partitions, you accomplish several important goals:
The performance of queries against the tables may improve ...
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