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What is partitioning? Explain about Round-Robin, Hash partitioning. - ETL

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7.What is partitioning? Explain about Round-Robin, Hash partitioning. - ETL

- Partitioning is to sub divide the transactions to improve performance.
- Increasing the number of partitions enables Informatica Server for creation of multiple connections to various sources.
- The following are the partitions
Round-Robin Partitioning:
- Data is distributed evenly by Informatica among all partitions.
- This partitioning is used where the number of rows to process in each partition are approximately same
Hash Portioning:
- Informatica server applies a hash function for the purpose of partitioning keys to group data among partitions.
- It is used where ensuring the processes groups of rows with the same partitioning key in the same partition, need to be ensured.

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