Oracle-L: RE: Partitioning question

From: Ji, Richard <Richard.Ji_at_MobileSpring.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:24:54 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004299EB.20020314102454@fatcity.com>

You are right. Partitioning can still make your job as a DBA easier. You can purge data (assuming the purge key is the same as partition key) by dropping partition, etc.

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Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:33 PM
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I am new to the world of partitioning. 816 on W2K. In a white paper on metalink "How to Implement Partitioning in Oracle Versions 8 and 8i " it states that "The RULE-based optimizer does not take the partitioning of tables and
indexes into account."
My question is - if your application is still rule based is there any value to partitioning? Some of the tables are over 30 million rows and 5G. If my understanding is correct I wouldn't see any performance improvement but would make maintenance simpler.
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