Oracle-L: Re: Partitions

From: Igor Neyman <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:43:39 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004752FA.20020605084339@fatcity.com>

Not having a partition with MAXVALUE in partitioned table is not a problem (as long, as you know, that there will be no values outside of the existing partitions range).

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

Original Message ----- From: Robertson Lee - lerobe To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: Partitions

All,

Oracle 8.0.5
Tru64 4.0f

We have a partitioned table here that has been left for sometime now and we need to split up the last partition into at least 6 to 7 resized partitions.

My take on it after RTFM ing was to

Unload the data
Create my new tablespaces for the new partitions
Split the last partition
Repeat point 3 until I have my relevant number of smaller partitions
Create my local indexes for new partitions
Reload the data

This "looked" OK but now I am rethinking this. The problem is that the last partition tablespace will still be massive, so I really need to drop the last partition, and its tablespace and recreate. Is this feasible ?? Can you drop the last partition in a table (therefore leaving the second from last without a MAXVALUE).

Regards (and confused)

Lee

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