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Re: Table partition: question

From: darkeagle <NOSPAM_at_italy.it>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:58:50 +0200
Message-ID: <2m4q9dFio5ikU1@uni-berlin.de>


Thank you very much...

"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> ha scritto nel messaggio news:cdj8bu$fsd$1_at_titan.btinternet.com...
>
> It is not possible to do what you want, and
> the approach of concatenating bits of string
> into a single field is not a good idea.
>
> However, you can get quite close to your requirement
> by adding an extra column to your table, and populating
> it with a before insert/update row trigger that extracts
> the character from the longer string.
>
> You can then partition on the single character column.
>
Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 09:58:50 CDT

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