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Can Two Tasks Be Assigned to the Same Partition in Sybase?

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Can Two Tasks Be Assigned to the Same Partition in Sybase?

Yes. ASE randomly assigns partitions. This means there is always a chance that two users will vie for the same partition when attempting to insert and one would lock the other out.

The more partitions a table has, the lower the probability of users trying to write to the same partition at the same time.

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