Chapter 13, Problem 6PE

Explanation of Solution

Partitioning on takes relation:

• The larger databases allow the records in a relation to be partitioned to smaller relations and store it separately.
• The table partitioning is done based on some attribute value in the relation.
• In the given situation, where the university database stores the values for many years, the partition can be done if required.
• The takes relation is one of the relations in the university database in which the data of the student who takes different courses from different department in different year are stored. So the takes relation contains huge amount of data.
• The table takes can be partitioned on the basis of an attribute called “year”...