Which of the following is NOT a commonly used partitioning method?
- Hash partitioning
- Merge partitioning
- Range partitioning
- Round-robin partitioning
Merge partitioning is not a commonly used partitioning method in database management. Range partitioning divides data based on specified ranges of values, hash partitioning distributes data using hash functions, and round-robin partitioning evenly distributes data across partitions without considering data characteristics.
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