Thank you for your feedback. I was trying to avoid having to add an additional column to the table. Deepak Sharma <sharmakdeep_oracle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I don't know if you could use a function within the 'partition by range' clause. You may try (if you're on 9i) - Here TRANSACTION_DAY is populated from TRANSACTION_DATE, say, by a trigger: SQL> create table AUDIT_LOG 2 ( 3 TRANSACTION_DATE DATE, 4 TRANSACTION_DAY CHAR(3) 5 ) 6 PARTITION BY LIST (TRANSACTION_DAY) 7 ( 8 PARTITION P1 VALUES ( 'MON' ), 9 PARTITION P2 VALUES ( 'TUE' ), 10 PARTITION P3 VALUES ( 'WED' ), 11 PARTITION P4 VALUES ( 'THR' ), 12 PARTITION P5 VALUES ( 'FRI' ), 13 PARTITION P6 VALUES ( 'SAT' ), 14 PARTITION P7 VALUES ( 'SUN' ) 15 ) 16 / Table created. --- d cheng wrote: > Hi listers, > > I have the following audit table for which I am > trying to come up with a partitioning strategy so I > can keep 7 days worth of data. > > create table AUDIT_LOG > ( TRANSACTION_DATE DATE, > USERID NUMBER, > OPCODE VARCHAR2(3), > MSGTEXT VARCHAR2(255)); > > I tried the below but have not been successful with > it. Are there other approaches to accomplish my > goal? > > PARTITION BY RANGE(to_char(TRANSACTION_DATE,'D')) > (PARTITION P1 VALUES LESS THAN ('2')), > PARTITION P2 VALUES LESS THAN ('3')), > PARTITION P3 VALUES LESS THAN ('4')), > PARTITION P4 VALUES LESS THAN ('5')), > PARTITION P5 VALUES LESS THAN ('6')), > PARTITION P6 VALUES LESS THAN ('7')), > PARTITION P7 VALUES LESS THAN ('8') > ) > > Thank you in advance for your help! > > - David > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page