Purpose

This book is an introduction to implementing table partitioning for OpenEdge® databases.

Audience

This book is intended for database administrators who want to implement table partitioning to manage very large tables in the OpenEdge RDBMS.

Organization

Main steps for OpenEdge table partitioning

Describes prerequisites and how to implement table partitioning.

Benefits of table partitioning

Describes the benefits and features of table partitioning.

Table partitioning restrictions

Describes restrictions for table partitioning.

Documentation conventions

See Documentation Conventions for an explanation of the terminology, format, and typographical conventions used throughout the OpenEdge content library.