Eric My experience is that you'll find you can create a lot more partitions than you can manage. Carefully consider your management strategy. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. Does believing you're the last sane man on the planet make you crazy? Del Spooner in I Robot, played by Will Smith -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Justin Cave Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:29 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Maximum number of partitions? According to the Oracle Reference http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96536/ch44.htm #288033, 64k - 1 Justin Cave Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yen, Eric Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:16 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Maximum number of partitions? We are about to List Partition a table that has 78 million rows. Has anyone heard if there is a maximum number of partitions that a table can have in Oracle 9.2.0.4. ? Please site source if possible. Eric Yen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------