On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:10 AM, rverghese <ri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. Thats a bummer though. That means I need a table for every > month/year combination. I was hoping to limit it to 12 tables. > > Riya > > If you wanted to have a column called month_num or something like that, and if *all* of your queries extract the month date_part() in every where clause, then yes, you could have just 12 tables. But you won't like that partitioning scheme for other reasons: - queries that don't "play by the rules" will be slow - very old data will slow down recent-day queries - no ability to quickly remove obsolete data by dropping partitions that are no longer useful
