Thanks all who replied. The purpose of this excercise is mainly #1 mentioned in Dennis W.'s e-mail. Because of the size of this table, purging has been a challenge and we want to keep only 2 years data in the table and periodically drop partitions to save space.
Dennis -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis What are you trying to achieve by partitioning? Generally I've seen two common goals, 1) break a large table into more manageable pieces, 2) performance tuning, so a query only has to scan a small partition. Sometimes the two can be achieved simultaneously, sometimes they are at odds. If you had a year column, and partitioned on that column, you might have manageability, but if none of your queries included that column, Oracle would probably do a full table scan on all partitions (maybe in parallel if you have the partitions on separate devices). On the other hand, I've partitioned a table by week, which produces 52 partitions for each year. Not good for manageability, but it made the queries blazingly fast. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 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 Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Meng, Dennis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Meng, Dennis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
