A quintillion is 10 raised to the power of 18 (that is, 1 followed by 18 zeros). 9.2 quintillion (or more precisely, 9,223,372,036,854,775,807) is the new limit in Teradata Database 14.0 for the number of combined partitions. Note that this is the same as the maximum BIGINT value (which is a signed 8-byte integer). While tables that are defined with 65535 or less combined partitions still use 2-byte partitioning, if the number of defined combined partitions exceeds 65535 for a table, the table is created with 8-byte partitioning.
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