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"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> > I was suprised to learn that (range/list) partitioning costs extra on
> > Oracle.
>
> Me too, mainly because it isn't true.
Ian is correct - partitioning is an extra cost option in Oracle (though I understand that that extra cost can be close to zero if the deal is important enough :)). It does offer hash partitioning as well :)
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.comReceived on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 00:44:10 CDT