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Oracle provides two key scalability features that enable good performance, even with massively large databases: parallelism and partitioning. Parallelism allows Oracle to start more than one thread of execution to take advantage of multiple hardware resources. Partitioning allows subsets of a table or index to be managed independently (Oracle’s “divide and conquer” approach). The focus of this chapter is partitioning strategies.
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Kuhn, D. (2013). Partitioning: Divide and Conquer. In: Pro Oracle Database 12c Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5729-5_12
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