I have worked with partitioning before but have yet encountered the following challenge -
The table we are trying to partition is a large table with hundreds of millions of rows, which is ok. But it does not have a month column, although it has dates. I would like to partition by month because this table contains years of data and partitioning by days will result in thousands of partitions. Of course we can add a month column but I think that will require extensive downtime which we can't afford and I suspect it will cause row-chaining as well. So anybody care to share with me any other options/suggestions?
TIA
Dennis
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