Comments 2
The article appears to be made by ChatGPT asked to write in "alight folks" style. And the result looks like marketing bullshit jingle with hallucinations.
For example, we have self-repetitions
1) Performance
2) Maintenance
3) Performance again(?!)
Incorrect statements:
Every query would require scanning the entire table
Seriously? What happened to indices though?
And outright hallucinations:
Key partitioning is similar to range partitioning
The mysql manual says otherwise, "KEY partitioning is similar to partitioning by HASH".
we'll choose range partitioning based on product categories.
but there are no ranges here, but "specific values" mentioned above as a feature of LIST partitions.
The main problem, however, is the article fails to provide convincing reasons to use partitioning, offering just pompous rant instead.
Not worth reading.
How to partition a MySQL table