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Figure 2: Partitioned Table Data
Although each bucket is assigned to one or more specic servers, you can use a procedure to relocate buckets
in a running system, in order to improve the utilization of resources across the cluster. See Rebalancing Partitioned
Data on SQLFire Members on page 66.
Understanding Where Data Is Stored
SQLFire uses a table's partitioning column values and the partitioning strategy to calculate routing values
(typically integer values). It uses the routing values to determine the "bucket" in which to store the data.
Each bucket is then assigned to a server, or to multiple servers if the partitioned table is congured to have
redundancy. The buckets are not assigned when the table is started up, but occurs lazily when the data is actually
put into a bucket. This allows you to start a number of members before populating the table.
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