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Re: Challenge: Partitioning is a wrong idea

From: <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 7 Apr 2005 11:58:12 -0700
Message-ID: <1112900292.024911.170470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> 





booga..._at_yahoo.com wrote:


> Sure.  Try deleting 1 years worth of data from a non-partitioned

table


> that's 1 terabyte and holds 8 years worth of data.




Oh, year. I was supposed to sh*t my pants by you mentioning 1 TB.



Why the performance of deleting 1 year of data



delete from sales_history


where txn_date < ...



is critical in any way? More specifically, please let me know what
possible business process might be disrupted. FYI, a design where there
data is never deleted is not that uncommon at all.
Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 13:58:12 CDT












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