RE: RE : Table partition on part of a field

I thought about it, but there are many update programs and my first inclination is to leave the design as is. We are talking about PORTING application and I do not want to add design changes as well.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il

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>
> Make it two fields 6 & 3
> Partition on 3
> And create a view to concatenate the two fields into one
>
> Regards,
> Waleed
>
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> Hello All
>
> I need to create a partitioned table base on the last three digits on 9
> digits number.
>
> Create table test (zip_and_city_code number(9));
>
> The zip code is 6 digits and the city code is 3 digits.
>
> The design is from an application that used btrieve and is now ported to
> Oracle.
> (I would not allow this design if it was a new system).
>
> I want to group every city records into its own partition.
>
> First I tried to use range partitioning based on a function on the field
> and
> it does not work.
>
> Then I thought about using hash partitioning using my own hash function
> but
> could not find
> where I can use my own hash function.
>
> Any help to implement this @#$% design will be really appreciated.
>
> Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
> adary_at_mehish.co.il
>
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