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Chapter 15. managing table partitions, Designing table partitions – HP Integrity NonStop H-Series User Manual

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CHAPTER 15.

MANAGING TABLE
PARTITIONS

A partition is a portion of the table residing on a volume different from the
volume on which the table was initially created. When creating partitions
of a table, you specify the number of partitions and the volume, catalog,
and primary-key values for each partition.

Using dba/m Database Manager table partition management windows, you
can

Design partitions

View partitions

Add partitions

Alter partitions

Drop partitions

Perform a simple move on a partition

Perform a one-way split on a partition

Perform a two-way split on a partition

Designing Table Partitions

Partition design computes the primary key values for a given distribution of
rows across partitions.

To design a table partition, click on Table Partitions in the Main window,
then click on Design. The Partition Selection window will be displayed, as
shown in Figure 15-1.

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