here's one for the partitioning gurus out there
I have an INVOICE table that I want to partition for performance and
purging. The way I want to partition it is to do range partitioning on the
INVOICE_STATE column, then sub-partition some of the partitions by
UPDATE_DATE.
The logic behind
Kevin - This sounds similar to a partitioning issue that I was able to
resolve. My suggestion is to consider partitioning on a concatenated key,
INVOICE_STATE, UPDATE_DATE. You'll have to play with it, the partitions
don't work the way you think they do. As I recall, if you say less than
'AL',
Thanks to Dennis, I found that partitioning on a concatenated key solves my
dilema.
For those who are interested, here is my new partitioning clause:
PARTITION BY RANGE (invoice_state, update_date) (
PARTITION inv_active VALUES LESS THAN
('B', TO_DATE('01-jan-',
