File Groups For Table Partitioning And Storage
May 31, 2007
Hello,
I am building partitiong tables, partitioning on different file groups:
the question is:
Partitioned table referred to old data that are not frequent accessed for reporting can be stored on separate location(External storage, tape and so on) or to make partitioning functioning must all file groups must be presents?
If not, how can I separate old data from current ones (still using partitioning) to reduce the size of DB?
What it is the best for storage data and easy to access it when needs arise (eg reporting): Tape, external storage, others?
Thank
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Mar 13, 2008
Ok so facebook groups have 100,000's of members. Members can be part of an unlimited number of groups, and a group can have an unlimited number of members.
Comma Deliniated String seems absurd. Many-2-Many Database relationship seems like it won't scale well t the 10's of thousands and 100's of thousands of members (especially if you have 1000-5000 groups). A table for each group would work but thats a bit over the top in my opinion. XML file doesn't seem to be any better than the above options.
I am no database guru, but I can't figure out a scalable method of doing this, be it with or without a database. I need something that can support 10 groups that have 20 members each OR 1000 groups with 100,000 members each.
Any help, suggestions, or kicked in the right direction would be most appreciated.
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May 8, 2007
We have recently added a new file group and file on a new drive. We have tested it by moving a small table to the new file group. We would like to relocate a new table to this file group but the table is about (we estimate) 75GB. My question is this: How long can we expect the transfer of data from the current file group to the new one for this table? I understand that depending on our hardware the answer may vary but does anyone have a rough estimate?
The current current (primary) file is located on a DELL SAN and the new secondary group is on a EMC 4700 both are connected via fiber channel.
Also a bonus question would be: Does a "normal" database backup created as a maintenance plan backup the seconary data as well into the BAK file?
Like I said a rough estimate is fine.
Many thanks,
Scott
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Oct 7, 2015
I have a requirement of table partitioning. we have 10 years of data on a table which is 30 billion up rows on 2005 server we are upgrading it to 2014. we have to keep 7 years of data. there is no keys on table or date column. since its a huge amount of data and many users its slow down the process speed. we are thinking to do partition on 7 years for Quarterly based. but as i said there is no date column on table we have to use reference table to get date. is there a way i can do the partitioning with out adding date column on table? also does partition will make query faster?Â
I have think three ways to do it.
1. leave as it is.
2. 7 years partition on one server
3. 3 years partition on server1 and 4 years partition on server2 (for 4 years is snapshot better?)
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Dec 18, 2006
I have one of our production Accounting Databases starting from 2 GBnow grown into a 20 GB Database over the period of a few years...I have been getting timeouts when transactions are trying to updatedifferent tables in the database.. Most of the error I get are I/Orequests to the data file (Data file of the production dbAccounting_Data.MDF).I would like to implement the following to this Accounting database.I need to split the Data file into multiple files by placing some ofthe tables in different file groups. I have the server upgraded to beable to have different drives in different channels. I can place thesedata and log files in different drives so it will be less I/Oconflicts..I would like to have the following file groups..FileGroup 1 - which will have all database definitions (DDL).FileGroup 2 - I will have the AR Module tables under here..FileGroup 3 - I will have the GL module tables under here..FileGroup 4 - I will have the rest of the tables under hereFileGroup 5 - I will like to place the indexes under here....Also where will the associated transaction files go?I would like to get some help doing this. Is there any articles / helpavailable that I can refer to. Any suggestions / corrections/criticisms to what I have mentioned above is much appreciated...!Thanks in advance....
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i have a table named "user" in which user which are located at different places within a city are recorded.
i want to group user with respect to there location like users of northern region are recorded first then users of western region and so on.
tell me from horizontal and vertical partitioning wh technique is better or i should use some other technique.
thanks for ur consideration.
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Nov 14, 2000
Hi,
I want to know more on table partitioning.I do not know where to get the right info.from.
I have a doubt - if a table is partitioned horizontally how does a query identifies where to pick up the data from i.e. from which part of partitioned table?
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Jun 16, 2008
i want to partition a table containing about 3 million rows. The partition column will be of datetime type.
following is the partition function i have used
create partition function MyPartFun
(datetime) as range left for values ('07/30/2007','09/30/2007','11/30/2007','01/30/2008','04/30/2008')
following is the partition scheme i have used
create partition scheme PartScheme as
partition MyPartFun all to ([primary])
i know how to add partition column while creating the table
But dont know how to add above partition scheme to an already populated table
Plz help...
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Apr 24, 2007
Hi,
I have a database created using Enterprise Manager Wizard.
For example datafile db1_data.mdf and log file db1_log file exists.
All the tables are created in datafile db1_data.mdf.
Now to improve performance I want to implement table partitioning.
Can anybody tell me howto implement it with existing strutcure.
Suppose there is table Mytable in which all update and delete actions are performed regularly.And it contains about 10,0000 records.
I want to partition the table so that it contains 5000 records.
Solution with example highly appreciated.
Satish
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Dec 13, 2007
Hi Experts,
I am new to Table Partitioning, Can any body guide me how to do table partitioning?
any way here is my scenario, we are having one database called "DATA" in SQL 2000 server and we have migrated to SQL 2005 by using backup and restore. and "DATA" is having about 15 tables and they are very very very big in size. and they dont have any index on a coulum name "DATETIME", but i want make table partition according to that perticular field "DATETIME" and right present we are having 6 months of data.
So, how to proceed further?
Your help will be appreciable..
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Mar 19, 2007
i am trying to partition an sql table in sql server 2005, i created the partition schema and the data files that i want the data to be filled in after the partition. After the partition is finished sql gave me partition is successful , but i noticed that the size of data files i created has not increased and their sizes are the same.
notice: i have a clustered index on this table, so i dropped this index and recreated it
Bellow the script that i am using
and thank you for your help in advance
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Mar 7, 2008
Hello frnds....what does mean by this ?
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Oct 11, 2006
Hello,
I have a Sql Server 2005 database with many tables, each with millions of records within them.
They all have a Receive Date field, with records going back 10 years or so.
What would be the best way to partition it? I was thinking of partitioning them by years, but that would give me 10+ partitions -- would that be alot of overhead?
~Le
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Nov 14, 2007
Hi folks! I'm looking for advice on partitioning a large table. In the DDL below I've changed names to protect the guilty.
My table has this schema:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BigTable]
(
[TimeKey] [int] NOT NULL,
[SegmentID] [int] NOT NULL,
[MyVal] [tinyint] NOT NULL
) ON [BigTablePS1] (TimeKey) -- see below for partition scheme
alter table [dbo].[BigTable] add constraint [PK_BigTable]
primary key (timekey asc, SegmentID asc)
-- will evaluate whether this one is needed, my thinking is yes
-- based on the expected select queries.
create index NCI_SegmentID on BigTable(SegmentID asc)
The TimeKey column is sort of like a unix time. It's the number of minutes since 2001/01/01, but always floored to a 5 minute boundary. so only multiples of 5 are allowed.
Now, this table will be rather big. There are about 20k possible SegmentIDs. For every TimeKey from 2008/01/01 to 2009/01/01 (12 months), I'll have on the order of 20000 rows, one for each SegmentID.
For the 12 month period, there are 365*24*60/5=105120 possible TimeKey values. So the total rowcount is over 2 billion. (20k * 105120)
Select queries are expected to be something like this:
-- fetch just one particular row...
select MyVal from BigTable
where TimeKey=5555 and SegmentID=234234
--fetch for a certain set of SegmentID and a particular time...
select
b.SegmentID
,b.MyVal
from BigTable b
join OtherTable t on t.SegmentID=b.SegmentID
where b.TimeKey=5555
and t.SomeColumn='SomeValue'
Besides selects, also I need to be able to efficiently issue update statements against the table with new values in the MyVal column based on a range of TimeKey values (a contiguous span of a few days) and sets of about 1000 SegmentID. updates would always look like this:
update t
set t.MyVal=p.MyVal
from BigTable t
join #myTempTable p on t.TimeKey=p.TimeKey
and t.SegmentId=p.SegmentId
where #myTempTable would have order of 1000*24*60 rows in it, all with contiguous TimeKey values, and about 1000 different SegmentID values. #myTempTable also has a clustered pk on (timekey asc, SegmentId asc).
After the table is loaded, it would never get any inserts or deletes. only selects and updates.
Given the size, and the nature of the select and update queries, this table seems like a good candidate for partitioning. I'm thinking it makes sense to partition on TimeKey.
So my question is, is it stupid to create a separate partition for each day in the year long span of TimeKeys this table covers? That would mean 365 partitions in the partition function and partition scheme. Something like this:
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [BigTableRangePF1] (int)
AS RANGE LEFT FOR VALUES
(
3680640 + 0*1440, -- 3680640 is the number of minutes between 2001/01/01 and 2008/01/01
3680640 + 1*1440,
3680640 + 2*1440,
3680640 + 3*1440,
...snip...
3680640 + 363*1440,
3680640 + 364*1440,
3680640 + 365*1440
);
GO
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [BigTablePS1]
AS PARTITION [BigTableRangePF1]
TO
(
[PRIMARY],[PRIMARY],[PRIMARY],
...snip...
[PRIMARY],[PRIMARY],[PRIMARY]
);
GO
does anyone have any experience with partitioned tables with so many partitions? Is a few hundred partitions too many? From my understanding of partitions, seems like having so many will be ok. Is it somehow worse than having hundreds of tables in a database?
Even with one partition for each day, I'll still have 24*60*20000/5 ~ 5m rows in each one.
5m seems like a manageable number. 2b does not.
elsasoft.org
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Apr 30, 2007
We had data in tables for multiple users (Logins) .Each user data is identified by a one column named €śUSER€?. No user has direct access to tables and only through views .we have created views and stored proc .Views will perform DML operations on tables using condition WHERE USER=SUSER_SNAME() (i.e Logged in user).So no point of getting others user data.
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I heard about table Partitioning, index Partitioning, view Partitioning. Are they helpful to boost my query performance?
And also let me know is there any good way of designing apart from above options
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Aug 10, 2006
Hi,
I have the following doubt about table lockinglocking in case of partitioning:-
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Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Jan 15, 2007
Conrad writes "I'm currently working on Table Partitioning. I have done everything succesfull for partitioning, what I'm struggling with is to use
" SELECT MAX(NAME) from sys.filegroups WHERE NAME NOT LIKE 'PRIMARY' " to get the last used FileGroup. Now this works just fine, but when I run the following script:
--Decalre variables
DECLARE @LastFilegroupName VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @FilegroupName VARCHAR(50)
--Retuns the next FileGroup to be used
SET @LastFilegroupName = (select MAX(NAME) from sys.filegroups WHERE NAME NOT LIKE 'PRIMARY')
SET @LastFilegroupName = Replace(@LastFilegroupName,'FileGrp','')
SET @FilegroupName = 'FileGrp' + CAST((@LastFilegroupName + 1) as varchar(10))
--Alter database statement
ALTER DATABASE VadivelTesting
ADD FILEGROUP @NewFG_Name
This script gives the following error "Incorrect syntax near '@NewFG_Name'."
When I give it a static name it works fine, but not with the variable.
Please can someone help me, I'm in struggeling with this one."
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Dec 2, 2006
Is there any benefit in creating seperate file groups for a partitionedtable on a multi-processor server with RAID5 and 1 Logical Drive?
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Oct 30, 2015
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Sep 28, 2007
I have an existing database with a table of about 50 milion records. There are also about 20 other tables, but they are alot smaller. The large table has a uniqueidentifier as it's Primary key (not sequential) and a forien key to a 'parent' table. The table also has a column telling when it was created. So, a bit simplified, it looks like:
ChildTable
---------------
Id uniqueidentifier <PK>
ParentId uniqueidentifier <FK>
CreationDate DateTime
ParentTable
-----------------
Id uniqueidentifier <PK>
CreationDate DateTime
Most of the questions accessing the Child table (the large table) is doing so by referensing the parent table, and not the CreatingDate, i.e.
SELECT *
FROM ChildTable
WHERE ParentId = '......'
All records with a specific ParentId will have very similiar CreationDates.
Now, my question is, will Partitioning the ChildTable boost performance for me? In case it will, what column(s) would define the Partitions? If I do it by CreationDate, a select-query like the one above will have to scan all partitions anyway, doesn't it? Doing it by Id isn't soo easy either I guess? If it helps, it might be possible to change the primary keys in the tables to have sequential guids.
Is there perhaps a performance tool to get help with suggestions about how to partition the table? Something like the 'Performance dashboard' reports, but for partitioning?
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Mar 27, 2008
Hi,
I have a big table which is partitioned , I need to change the portioning function (including the column used by partition key). I don€™t want to change the table or use a temp table as there are a lot of dependent objects to this table
I wrote:
DECLARE @partition_count INT,@cmd VARCHAR(8000)
SELECT @partition_count=MAX(p.partition_Number) FROM sys.allocation_units A,sys.partitions P ,sys.data_spaces D
WHERE P.OBJECT_ID=OBJECT_ID('TABLEA')
AND A.container_id=P.Partition_id
AND A.data_space_id=D.data_space_id
SELECT @partition_count
WHILE (@partition_count>1)
BEGIN
SELECT @cmd='ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION MainPartitionFunction() MERGE range ('+CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),@partition_count-1)+')'
exec (@cmd)
SELECT @partition_count=@partition_count-1
End
Which will merge all the existing partitions to one. But I don€™t seem to be able to find a way change the existing funtion. ( in need to change the partition key all together)
Is there a way to disable or drop parition of the table all together (convert the table to a non-partitioned table) and then I can re define the parition function again.
Any ideas?
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I need Dynamic Partition of SQL Table.
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3. Is creating partition occupies more disk space?
4. Is every partition would need index?
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Jul 31, 2015
I am new to Partitioning tables. My scenario is as listed below.
I am getting Monthly Transaction data on Every First Monday of the Month and I want to do partition for those data.
For Example: Let's say I will get my next monthly data on August 3rd 2015 which is First Monday of the month of August.
I want those Transaction data to go in new partitioned FileGroup in my existing partitioned table. How can I do partition for this kind of scenario ? Can we create one or multiple Stored Procedure which will create New Partition and load data in that partition ?Â
FYI, this monthly data will be loaded in Staging table and that table has LoadDate column which will have 2015-08-03 in it. I am using SQL 2012 Enterprise edition.
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Oct 25, 2007
We are facing few issues pertaining to creation of primary key on a non - partitioned column in sql server 2005. Herewith attaching the text file containing the detailed scenario.
Pls advice.
Pls find some of the scenario with the example given below:
We have done the following steps
1.Creating a Partition Function
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION pf_EncounterODS_StateID (CHAR(2))
AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES
(
'CA', -- CA
'MI', -- MI
'NM', -- NM
'OH', -- OH
'TX', -- TX
'UT', -- UT
'WA' -- WA
)
GO
2.Creating a Partition Schema
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [ps_EncounterODS_StateID]
AS PARTITION pf_EncounterODS_StateID TO
(
[PRIMARY],
[ENC_DM_DATA_01], -- CA
[ENC_DM_DATA_03], -- MI
[ENC_DM_DATA_04], -- NM
[ENC_DM_DATA_05], -- OH
[ENC_DM_DATA_06], -- TX
[ENC_DM_DATA_07], -- UT
[ENC_DM_DATA_02] -- WA
)
GO
3.Creating a table using above partitioned schema
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Fact] (
[ValidationErrorSID] [bigint] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
[ProcessID] [int] NULL ,
[StateID] [char] (2) NOT NULL ,
[ClaimID] [char] (15) NULL ,
) ON [ps_EncounterODS_StateID](StateID)
4.Creating a primary key on validationErrorSID column in the fact table
ALTER TABLE [Fact] ADD CONSTRAINT NQValidationError PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([ValidationErrorSID])
Step 4 throws an error as
---------------------------------
Column 'StateID' is partitioning column of the index 'NQValidationError'. Partition columns for a unique index must be a subset of the index key.
If we include StateID along with ValidationErrorSID for index,then it works fine.But we need to have only ([ValidationErrorSID]) for indexing.
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May 23, 2008
I have gone through the table partitioning in MSDN, like Designing Partitions to Manage Subsets of Data . But how to do this in actual world, since some db need to partition for 7 days, then archive these days records on the 8th day, while other prefer 14 days/monthly, and run this repetitively for many years? If this is running weekly, how can i generate the scheme and function dynamically? What if ID for row count is not viable?
Sure this will not work:
Code Snippet
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [TransactionRangePF1] (datetime)
AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ('10/01/2003', '10/02/2003', '10/03/2003',
'10/04/2004', '10/05/2004', '10/06/2004', '10/07/2004');
GO
Then how to drop partition periodically?
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Apr 18, 2006
Table partitioning with multiple key coulmns
Hi champs!
I have one table with around 600 million records.
I want to partition this table on 5 different coulumns.
year, month. coulumn3, coulumn4 and coulumn5.
How do I do this best?
What is the best way of doing this; is there any best practice on ths?
The obvious thing is to make a partition funktion based on the year and month coulmns, but I also want to partition on coulumn3, coulumn4 and coulumn5.
Many thanks
Kurlan
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The Whole application runs on DTS.
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Now, even if the Global Variables are there to change whenever they want to change the Locations of the Files, they have to goto each child package and change the variable themselves.
To resolve this issue, they want a configuration File (INI) / Table which would store those Variables. My thought is to read from that File/Table and Update all the packages' global variables through an ActiveX Script as the First Step of the Master package. That would eliminate the need of changing anything in the existing System.
But the Problem is the management (PM / DBAs / Team members) have different views to store the Configuration data.
1. Some wants it into a Different Database, having one table for this application so in future they can also add another table for some other application.
2. Some wants to store it in a Table in the Same Database of this Application.
3. Some wants to save it as a INI file.
As i'm the one who's going to really implement it, they have asked me to research for a best solution out there.
so I request to help me to decide which is a good solution and why.
Best Regards,
Deepak
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