I have no experience with partitioning, but plan on gaining some ASAP. I want to partition a table into 52 pieces. This table will contain a rolling 52 week summary of data. Each week a new partition will get created & loaded. The oldest partition will get dropped. This table will be range partitioned; 1 week per partition. From what I've read so far, LOCAL index should provide better performance (as opposed to a GLOBAL index). Is this correct? What is the "best" way to the PK index on this table? Can/should this index reside in a single tablespace? What are the trade-offs involved? Thanks In Advance! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------