# Partition
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Represents a slice of table data.

## Contents
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 ** CatalogId **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-CatalogId"></a>
The ID of the Data Catalog in which the partition resides.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: No

 ** CreationTime **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-CreationTime"></a>
The time at which the partition was created.  
Type: Timestamp  
Required: No

 ** DatabaseName **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-DatabaseName"></a>
The name of the catalog database in which to create the partition.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: No

 ** LastAccessTime **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-LastAccessTime"></a>
The last time at which the partition was accessed.  
Type: Timestamp  
Required: No

 ** LastAnalyzedTime **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-LastAnalyzedTime"></a>
The last time at which column statistics were computed for this partition.  
Type: Timestamp  
Required: No

 ** Parameters **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-Parameters"></a>
These key-value pairs define partition parameters.  
Type: String to string map  
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Key Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512000.  
Required: No

 ** StorageDescriptor **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-StorageDescriptor"></a>
Provides information about the physical location where the partition is stored.  
Type: [StorageDescriptor](API_StorageDescriptor.md) object  
Required: No

 ** TableName **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-TableName"></a>
The name of the database table in which to create the partition.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: No

 ** Values **   <a name="Glue-Type-Partition-Values"></a>
The values of the partition.  
Type: Array of strings  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/glue-2017-03-31/Partition) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/glue-2017-03-31/Partition) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/glue-2017-03-31/Partition)