This document discusses Oracle partitioning for DBAs and developers. It begins with an introduction of the presenter and an agenda. It then covers partitioning concepts, background/history, benefits including increased availability and performance, implementation scenarios, types of partitioning like range and hash, how to implement range, list, interval and hash partitioning, partitioning maintenance operations, and concludes with a discussion of new features in Oracle releases.

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WHY, WHEN AND HOW TO DO IT
ORACLE
PARTITIONING FOR
DBAS AND
DEVELOPERS

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FRANKY WEBER FAUST
● Senior Oracle Database Consultant at
Pythian
● 27 years old
● Writer at OTNLA and Lore Data Blog
● Speaker at some conferences
● High Availability specialist
● Performance researcher
● Exadata, RAC, DataGuard, Grid
Infrastructure, GoldenGate

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Years in Business
20 Pythian Experts
in 35 Countries
400+ Current Clients
Globally
350+

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AGENDA
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● Partitioning concept
● Background
● Partitioning benefits (Why)
● Implementation scenarios (When)
● Types of partitioning (When)
● Range, List, Interval e Hash partitioning (How)
● The execution plan
● Partitioning maintenance operations*
● Historical data archiving*
● Converting partitions*

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PARTITIONING CONCEPTS
● Break down a table/index into
smaller pieces
● Partition Key
● Single or multicolumn
● Up to 16 columns
● Unique values are not required
● Every partition is a segment
● Tables
● Heap tables
● Index-organized tables
● Indexes
● Materialized Views
● Clusters
● Performance
● Partition Pruning

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BACKGROUND HISTORY
● Since Oracle 8
● Requires extra licensing and EE
● Manual partitioning using views
● New features every new release
Oracle 12cR2 Auto-list and Multicolumn list
partitioning, Partitioned
external tables
Table creation for partition exchange,
read-only partitions, Filtered partition
maintenance, Online table
conversion to partitioned table
Oracle 18c Online Merging of Partitions
and Subpartitions
Parallel Partition-Wise
SQL Operations
Modifying the Partitioning
Strategy
Partition Maintenance on multiple
partitions, Asynchronous global
index maintenance, Zone maps

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PARTITIONING BENEFITS (WHY)
● Increases availability of data
● Eases administration of large
segments
● Might improve the performance of
some queries
● Might reduce contention on hot
OLTP segments

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IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIOS (WHEN)
● Large volume of data when
administration becomes difficult
● Query performance on large tables
suffers
● Buffer busy waits on high-concurrent
tables
● Horizontal scalability in RAC
● Decreased storage cost
● Compression and row archival

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TYPES OF PARTITIONING (WHEN)
● Range Partitioning
● Dates and numbers are good
candidates
● Upper boundary
● Hash Partitioning
● High-volume OLTP segments
● Data is evenly distributed across
partitions
● List Partitioning
● Categories, colors, sports, brands
● Default values accepted
● Interval Partitioning
● Automated range partitions
● Reference Partitioning
● Relational model PK-FK
● Interval Reference Partitioning
● All child tables will be automatically
maintained
● Virtual Column Based Partitioning

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RANGE PARTITIONING (HOW)

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RANGE PARTITIONING (HOW)

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LIST PARTITIONING (HOW)

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LIST PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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HASH PARTITIONING (HOW)

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INTERVAL PARTITIONING (HOW)

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INTERVAL PARTITIONING (HOW)

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INTERVAL PARTITIONING (HOW)

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INTERVAL PARTITIONING (HOW)

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INTERVAL PARTITIONING (HOW)

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THE EXECUTION PLAN

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THE EXECUTION PLAN

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THE EXECUTION PLAN

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THE EXECUTION PLAN

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THE EXECUTION PLAN

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PARTITIONING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

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PARTITIONING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

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PARTITIONING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

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CONCLUSION
● Range Partitioning, Hash
Partitioning, List Partitioning, Interval
Partitioning
● 12cR2 onwards can do most
partitioning operations online
● Performance problems in read or
write operations can get better or
worse with partitioning, so plan well
● New releases -> New features, it's
been like that for years.
● Questions?

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