This document provides information about partitioning in MySQL 5.1 presented by Sarah Sproehnle and Giuseppe Maxia. It discusses partitioning types (range, hash, list, key), partitioning expressions, partitioning pruning, benchmarking partitions, partitioning with different storage engines, partitioning by dates, and optimizing queries on partitioned tables.Read less
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