Thank you -- we didn't use table partitioning because we didn't have good results in the past, though we should probably have tried it, and maybe it'd have work

Thank you -- we didn't use table partitioning because we didn't have good results in the past, though we should probably have tried it, and maybe it'd have worked well. We just kind of gave up on mySQL use for that specific problem after failing (again, maybe its entirely because of our inability to use mySQL "properly") to get good results and moved on to something else.