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Partition pruning

Scan only the relevant partition.

Partition pruning

Partition pruning scans only relevant partitions. It speeds up the query.

SELECT * FROM sales WHERE sale_date >= '2026-01-01';
-- yalnız 2026 bölümleri taranır

Only relevant partition scanned.

All columns are selected from sales. WHERE keeps only the rows where sale_date >= '2026-01-01' holds.

Partition pruning — details

The WHERE condition prunes partitions. The query does not scan the whole table.

For this to work the WHERE condition must use the partition column (e.g. sale_date) directly; if the column is inside a function, pruning may not happen.

Practice Partition pruning

Trigger pruning with WHERE sale_date >= '2026-01-01'.

Starter code

query.sql
-- pruning query
SELECT * FROM sales

Sample solution

query.sql
SELECT * FROM sales WHERE sale_date >= '2026-01-01';

Expected output

id  sale_date   amount
1   2026-01-05  100

Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Add WHERE

Question 
SELECT * FROM sales ____ sale_date >= '2026-01-01'
Answer 
SELECT * FROM sales WHERE sale_date >= '2026-01-01'

Explanation: Thanks to the WHERE on sale_date the database scans only the relevant partition (partition pruning).

2 Partition pruning: match the terms

Term Meaning
pruning pruning
relevant less scan
WHERE condition
fast less data

3 What does partition pruning do?

  • Adds an index
  • Scans the whole table
  • Scans only the relevant partition Correct answer
  • Deletes data

Explanation: Pruning scans only the relevant partition.

All lessons in Advanced

1 CTE

  1. What is a CTE?
  2. Using WITH
  3. Multiple CTEs
  4. CTE vs subquery
  5. CTE with JOIN
  6. Summary - CTE

2 Recursive CTE

  1. What is a recursive CTE?
  2. Anchor and recursive parts
  3. Walk a hierarchy
  4. Tracking depth
  5. Stopping recursion
  6. Summary - Recursive CTE

3 Window functions

  1. What is a window function?
  2. ROW_NUMBER
  3. RANK and DENSE_RANK
  4. LAG and LEAD
  5. PARTITION BY
  6. Summary - Window functions

4 Project: Analytics report

  1. Analytics design
  2. CTE summary
  3. Top users with ROW_NUMBER
  4. Growth with LAG
  5. Final report

5 Pivot and unpivot

  1. What is pivot?
  2. Pivot with CASE
  3. FILTER clause
  4. Unpivot
  5. Dynamic pivot
  6. Summary - Pivot

6 Materialized view

  1. What is a materialized view?
  2. CREATE
  3. REFRESH
  4. View vs materialized view
  5. Index on materialized views
  6. Summary - Materialized view

7 Stored procedure

  1. What is a procedure?
  2. CREATE PROCEDURE
  3. Parameters
  4. CALL
  5. Control flow
  6. Summary - Stored procedure

8 Function

  1. What is a function?
  2. CREATE FUNCTION
  3. RETURN
  4. Calling a function
  5. Function vs procedure
  6. Summary - Function

9 Trigger

  1. What is a trigger?
  2. BEFORE and AFTER
  3. INSERT trigger
  4. UPDATE trigger
  5. Write an audit trigger
  6. Summary - Trigger

10 Transaction isolation

  1. What is isolation?
  2. READ UNCOMMITTED
  3. READ COMMITTED
  4. REPEATABLE READ
  5. SERIALIZABLE
  6. Summary - Isolation

11 Locking

  1. What is a lock?
  2. Shared and exclusive locks
  3. Deadlock
  4. SELECT FOR UPDATE
  5. Lock timeout
  6. Summary - Locking

12 Query optimization

  1. What is EXPLAIN?
  2. Seq scan vs index scan
  3. Cost
  4. Sargable
  5. N+1 problem
  6. Summary - Optimization

13 Partitioning

  1. What is partitioning?
  2. Range partition
  3. List partition
  4. Hash partition
  5. Partition pruning
  6. Summary - Partitioning

14 Advanced final

  1. Hierarchy report
  2. Window analysis
  3. Procedure and trigger
  4. Optimization