Partitioning and Compression for Datawarehouses.

1. Stack It & Pack It Partitioning And Compression For Warehouses / VLDB Jeff Moss

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7. How Does Segment Compression Work ? Database Block Symbol Table Row Data Area Block Common Header (20 bytes) Transaction Header (24 bytes fixed + 24 bytes per ITL) Data Header (14 bytes) Compressed Data Header (16 bytes - variable ) Tail (4 bytes) 100 Call to discuss bill amount TEL NO YES 3 TEL 4 NO 5 YES 2 Call to discuss bill amount 1 100 1 2 3 4 5 101 Call to discuss new product MAIL NO N/A 8 MAIL 9 N/A 7 Call to discuss new product 6 101 6 7 8 4 9 102 Call to discuss new product TEL YES N/A 10 7 3 5 9 10 102 ID DESCRIPTION CONTACT TYPE OUTCOME FOLLOWUP Table Directory (8 bytes) Row Directory (2 bytes per row )

31. Partitioning Feature: Characteristic Reason Matrix    Partition Truncation     Exchange Partition    Archiving    Pruning (Partition Elimination)   Partition wise joins  Parallel DML     Local Indexes    Read Only Partitions Availability Scalability Manageability Performance Characteristic: Feature:

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