Re: Partitioning

Hi!

You can use to_date function in partition by clause on date column. But, you'll have downtime for this table anyway, if you want to split existing table to partitions.

Tanel.

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> 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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