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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. It’s a pretty common question around here, so let’s see what we can do about that. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer.