I've used both methods at different sites for different reasons.
If you need the performance of the
partition-wise join, then you keep
the weekly aggregates in monthly
partitions, and work around the
problems of not being able to do
a single week
create as select / exchange partition
If the performance is adequate without
partitionwise joins, but you need to
be able to build the aggregates as
rapidly as possible, then use weekly
partitions. 3 years at weekly partitions
is only 150 - 160 partitions - even with
a handful of indexes, that shouldn't be
a problem at parse time.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 20 March 2003 19:18
> Hi all:
>
> An application I'm supporting needs weekly aggregates.
> Nothing wrong with that except I'm thinking of how to
> partition that aggregate table. The requirement is to
> keep 3 year history of data. I have been partitioning
> other aggregate tables (monthly etc) by month. This
> makes it easy to drop old partitions AND Oracle can
> use the partitions to reduce the size of the data for
> some queries. I'd like to keep the montly partitioning
> in for the uniformity reasons, but weeks do not lay
> over months, a week can span two months and therefore
> the usefulness of partitions for some of the reports
> will be reduced. I'm wondering how do others approach
> this. Do people partition weekly aggregates by week
> instead of months? ANy other thoughts?
>
> thanks
>
> Gene
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