Re: Is range partitioning possible on part of varchar2 column ??????

No, I think you will have to add a column to store 'YYYY' separately in order to partition on it.

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

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> Dear List,
>
> I have a table of size approx 10gig, and I need to partition based on the
> YEAR. I have column in the table, REPORT_CYCLE_CD with VARCHAR2(7). The
> data in the column of format "MONYYYY" . I need to partition the table
based
> on the year YYYY, that is, substr(report_cycle_cd, 4,4).
>
> Substr function doesn't seem to be permitted in the partitioning syntax
and
> so am getting errors. Only TO_DATE function seems to be permitted. Since
it
> is not a date column, I would like to know if there is a way to RANGE
> partition the table, instead of HASH partitioning.
>
> Appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Babu
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