Please excuse my ignorance. Especially when it comes to licensing. Because Im learning by fire, like most of you may have im sure, im curious about partition licenses. I have a 9i datawarehouse on w2k that uses table partitions to segment out fiscal years. is this partitioning an add on to the EE license? -- Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l