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RE: Is range partitioning possible on part of varchar2 column ???

From: Khedr, Waleed <Waleed.Khedr_at_FMR.COM>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:48:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00569973.20030313134852@fatcity.com>


Easy to do if it was 'YYYYMON'

Oracle 9i has list partitioning that may work for you.

Regards,

Waleed

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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:14 PM
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Dear List,

I have a table of size approx 10gig, and I need to partition based on the YEAR. I have column in the table, REPORT_CYCLE_CD with VARCHAR2(7). The data in the column of format "MONYYYY" . I need to partition the table based on the year YYYY, that is, substr(report_cycle_cd, 4,4).

Substr function doesn't seem to be permitted in the partitioning syntax and so am getting errors. Only TO_DATE function seems to be permitted. Since it is not a date column, I would like to know if there is a way to RANGE partition the table, instead of HASH partitioning.

Appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,
-- Babu
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