Re: Partitioning question (duplicate?)

2004-01-15 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that's what I get for not testing but just reading the manual :) remind me not to answer questions when I don't have a database handy. sounds like Dan's going to have to add a column. --- Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rahcel, Dan: I played with such things a long time

Re: Partitioning question (duplicate?)

2004-01-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
First time I've seen this post. And from the fine Data Warehousing manual: here's an example of range partitioning. Note the to_date in the values clause. I don't see why you couldn't use to_date(date_column,'MONTH') Rachel CREATE TABLE sales (s_productid NUMBER, s_saledate DATE,

Re: Partitioning question (duplicate?)

2004-01-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Dan, Good question, but unless I'm misinterpreting the results, the answer is no... SQL show release release 902000100 SQL create table test 2 (a date, b number, c number) 3 partition by list (to_char(a, 'MON')) 4 (partition pJAN values ('JAN')), 5

Re: Partitioning question (duplicate?)

2004-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
The only way I see is using a system-maintained ( through a before-insert and if necessary before-update trigger ) field that is set to to_char(date_column,'mm') and then range partition on that. At 03:24 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote: Pardon if this is a duplicate, but the original has not shown up