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David Locke (dlocke -at- bindview -dot- com <mailto:dlocke -at- bindview -dot- com> )
pointed out:
What kind of product are you working on? We need a context.
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I'm working on software; the word refers, more or less, to parallel
processing of data between distinct portions of tables referred to as
"partitions". Here's one of the sentences that got me:
"In some situations, <program> can parallelize operations on
partitions that it can't on tables; an example is joining between two
different tables if they are partitioned on the same key..."
