Patent 11036761 was granted and assigned to Wells Fargo on June, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one example, a device for partitioning a database includes an interface to a database containing one or more tables, and a hardware-based processor configured to determine configuration information for the database, the configuration information defining a partitioning scheme for the one or more tables of the database, form a partition function based on the configuration information and a schema for the database, and apply the partition function to the one or more tables to partition the one or more tables.