On 2010-04-14, Danny Lo <lo.dannyk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Jasen for your response to my previous question on table
> partitioning on query performance.
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> A related question is how I should actually setup the table partition to
> best optimize performance.
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> Unfortunately, my table of 20 columns will be about 1-1.5TB, much larger
> than 20GB.
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> Specifically, should I be using a range partition or list partition or maybe
> both (ie further partitioning a child table?) and how many partitions should
> I actually use.
that depends on what sort of queries you will use.