Rolling Time-based Partitions

With a high volume of data, this sounds like a table partitioned on day boundaries (in MySQL 5.1). See Sarah’s blog and her links for a quick ramp-up on time-based table partitioning (http://everythingmysql.ning.com/profiles/blogs/partitioning-by-dates-the). One great benefit of table partitioning is that you can drop a partition to lose millions of rows in one quick statement, much faster than deleting millions of rows. Sort of like a partial TRUNCATE TABLE.

via Glynn’s Thoughts on Databases: Rolling Time-based Partitions.