advice required on partioning

I have a table with a date field that lends itself to partitioning. However this is not the field that is used in most queries, so I currently have 2 indexes on other columns in the table.

I want to partition the table mainly to speed up deletes, which are done based on values in date field. This allow me to drop a partition rather do a normal delete.

Does it make sense to

1. Partition the table by the date column
2. Create a local partitioned index using that column
3. Create 2 other indexes on the 2 columns used for select statements. Should these be non-partitioned or global partitioned?

John

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