RE: Partitioning

From: Kevin Toepke <ktoepke_at_rlcarriers.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:59:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CA4F4.20030812105923@fatcity.com>

Partitioning by range will do just fine!

partition by date_col (

    partition jan2000 values less than to_date('02-01-2000', 'mm-dd-yyyy')    ,partition feb2000 values less than to_date('03-01-2000', 'mm-dd-yyyy')     ....
    );

Kevin

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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:04 PM
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I have worked with partitioning before but have yet encountered the following challenge -
The table we are trying to partition is a large table with hundreds of millions of rows, which is ok. But it does not have a month column, although it has dates. I would like to partition by month because this table contains years of data and partitioning by days will result in thousands of partitions. Of course we can add a month column but I think that will require extensive downtime which we can't afford and I suspect it will cause row-chaining as well. So anybody care to share with me any other options/suggestions?

TIA Dennis

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