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Which column to use for partitioning
Posted by: chillyroll r
Date: April 15, 2009 08:07AM

Hi,

I have a table tbl_data which has around 8.4 million records. In this I have 2 columns state_code and city_id. state_code is a CHAR (2) column which stores the 2 char state code like NY, CA and so on. Where as the city_id is a foreign key in this table another table tbl_city. I have around 52 states (no different table for states) and 30000 cities. I want to partition tbl_data. My question is which column should I use for partitioning, state_code or city_id. Also, which partitioning should I go for? I cannot use Range since I dont have city_id in sequence for a single state. I perform a search in my application based on "City, State" string.

Let me know what is the best partitioning policy in my case.

Thanks.

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