RE: partitioning questions

Partitioning is still a separately licensed product.

RF

Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
Oracle Database Architect
CSX Midtier Database Administration
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Mladen,

are you sure, "partitioning" is included with oracle 9?

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com   

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:08 AM

> That was not a good buy. Partitioning comes with Oracle 9, partitioning
> option is no longer sold separately.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: becker.bill_at_marshfieldclinic.org
> > [mailto:becker.bill_at_marshfieldclinic.org]
> > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:44 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: partitioning questions
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are planning to move to Oracle 9.2 on as-yet-undecided platform
> > (probably red hat linux on ibm hardware).
> >
> > We finally pursuaded management to purchase the partitioning
> > license, and I have some questions on partitioning:
> >
> > Scenario:
> > Range-Partition tableA on a service_date field by year;
> > Range-Partition tableB on a posted_date field by year;
> > These tables are frequently joined using a separate field
> > called charge_id, a surrogate key.
> >
> > Queries against these tables usually include some sort of
> > date filter, join on the charge_id field, and are done in parallel.
> >
> > 1) Would this configuration promote the use of partition-wise
> > joins between tableA and tableB by the optimizer?
> > 2) Would it be better to partition the tables (either range or hash)
> > by the join field, charge_id?
> > 3) If we range-partition by date, subpartition by hash (charge_id),
> > would queries that do not reference the date field, but do join
> > the tables by charge_id still benefit?
> > 4) Is it more expensive, less expensive, or about equal to do a
> > full table scan on a partitioned table vs the same table
> > non-partitioned?
> >
> > As always, thanks to any responders.
> > becker.bill_at_marshfieldclinic.org
> >
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