ALTER TABLE table1 PARTITION BY KEY myINT11timestamp PARTITIONS 1000;

Cheers

Which partition method did you use? One of the method described below or something else?

From stackoverflow:
ALTER TABLE table1 PARTITION BY KEY myINT11timestamp PARTITIONS 1000;
– or
ALTER TABLE table1 PARTITION BY HASH (myINT11timestamp/1000) PARTITIONS 10;

Well, the table to be partitioned was around 70 GB of data, and on test I did the change took around 4 and a half days. In the test I got performance improvement as if I were querying 2000000 records and not 400 000 000.

Cheers

Was wondering how you ended up using partitions with unix timestamp based on your question on stackoverlow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7552700/mysql-partitioning-and-unix-timestamp)?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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bye
m