Contents

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Preface

Changes in This Release for Oracle Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide

1 Introduction to Very Large Databases

2 Partitioning Concepts

3 Partitioning for Availability, Manageability, and Performance

4 Partition Administration

5 Managing and Maintaining Time-Based Information

6 Using Partitioning in a Data Warehouse Environment

7 Using Partitioning in an Online Transaction Processing Environment

8 Using Parallel Execution

9 Backing Up and Recovering VLDBs

10 Storage Management for VLDBs

Index