Re: SYSDATE in partition range boundary?

Hi,

You can generate and spool the ddl you need and execute that.

eg. sqlplus...

spool ddl.sql
select '....values less than (' || trunc(sysdate,'d') || ') ....' from dual; spool off
@ddl.sql

Jos

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> How can I get SYSDATE incorporated into the definition
> of a partition boundary for a table? Using hardcoded
> dates works fine, e.g.
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> values less than (to_date('10-FEB-2000', 'DD-MON-YYYY'))
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> but I need to automatically add a partition every day
> with a cutoff of 00:00:00 -- to get yesterday's dated
> material loaded.
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> SQL*Plus wants a string literal, or a number, or a MAXVALUE.
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> Tried a bunch of to_char/to_date combinations without success.
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> Chris O'Connor
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Received on Mon Feb 21 2000 - 06:18:01 CST