In a scenario where you have a dataset of employee records, which includes columns like employee_id, department, salary, and hire_date. Explain how you would decide on the appropriate partitioning strategy for this dataset to optimize query performance. Consider the frequency of queries and the nature of the data.

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Partition by employee_id, as it is likely that queries will often filter by individual employees._

16.6%

Partition by department, as it is likely that queries will often filter by specific departments.

64.0%

Partition by salary, as it is likely that queries will often filter by salary ranges.

4.0%

Partition by hire_date, as it is likely that queries will often filter by time ranges._

15.4%

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