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What is partition pruning?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Partition pruning skips irrelevant partitions during query execution.
Deep explanation
When tables are partitioned, the optimizer can eliminate partitions that do not match query predicates, reducing I/O and improving performance significantly.
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