Answer to Question #195779 in Statistics and Probability for Nonkululeko

Question

Is partitioning the same as equal sharing? Explain and illustrate.

Answer 1

On dividing the whole or a group of objects is into equal parts, we get equal shares. We need to divide an object or a whole number into equal parts to distribute it equally.

Partitioning is the database process where very large tables are divided into multiple smaller parts. By splitting a large table into smaller, individual tables, queries that access only a fraction of the data can run faster because there is less data to scan.

So Partitioning is not same as equally sharing.