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Your high value for each partition can just be the beginning of every month.  For 
example:

CREATE TABLE ACCOUNTS
(
  STATEMENT_DATE                 DATE           NOT NULL,
  ACCOUNT_NUMBER                 VARCHAR2(8)    NOT NULL,
  BILLING_CYCLE                  VARCHAR2(2)    NOT NULL,
...
PARTITION BY RANGE (STATEMENT_DATE) 
(  
  PARTITION ACCOUNTS_JAN02 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2002-02-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD))
    TABLESPACE BILH_DATA_01,
  PARTITION ACCOUNTS_FEB02 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2002-03-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD))
    TABLESPACE BILH_DATA_02,
  PARTITION ACCOUNTS_MAR02 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2002-04-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD))
    TABLESPACE BILH_DATA_03
);


Jay

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/15/03 07:34PM >>>
create table aadedupekeys
(
   file_id number,
   rundate date,
   pk      number(10),
   dk      varchar2(128),
   constraint aadedupekeys_pk primary key (file_id,rundate)
)
;

Is there anyway to partition a table (above) in months e.g.
('January','Februray'...).  I want to use the rundate and list partition it
using the months of the year.  How can I do that without actually having to
create another column in the table that only contains the month it belongs
to?  I cannot seem to use a function on the rundate field as part of the
partition syntax to generate a month to partition the data.

Thanks for your help,

Rick Stephenson





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