Is there a benefit in creating a vertical partition of a table if only relevant columns are being selected anyway?
<p>I am using MySQL 5.6. I have some tables that have upwards of 15-20 columns each.</p>

<p>However, I am being careful to only select relevant columns in each of my queries.</p>

<p>Would there still be some benefit (ex: performance-wise) in creating vertical partitions of these tables?</p>