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Partitioning dilemma
Posted by: Philopator Ptolemy
Date: July 20, 2010 08:51AM

I’m faced with a dilemma of choosing the right type and key for partitioning.
We have 2 very big tables in the system: sessions and transactions. One session can have many transactions.

Application actively inserts into both these tables and queries them by ID PK.
Back-office on the other hand queries those tables by DATE of the session and/or transaction.

This means that I have to choose whether to partition it by ID or by DATE.

Are there any compromise solutions?
Also I read somewhere that partitioning with PK on the table does not really help the performance and can actually make it work because large PK index cannot be kept in RAM.

Any help or advice is much appreciated.

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