Re: Range Partitioning ?'s

  • From: Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:14:06 -0400

On 5/20/05, Bryan Wells <bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Related to my thread earlier this week. I have a range partitioned table
> that i want to drop partitioning on. can someone validate the following
> steps im taking or refer me to a good doc? im going to grab DOCID
> 166652.1from Metalink to start.
>    1. store off tablespace/table/index ddl
>    2. export specific table
>    3. drop partition / tablespace
>    4. recreate tablespace / table w/o partitioning
>    5. import table data from step 2
>    6. recreate indexes
>    7. analyze tables
>    8. analyze indexes
>=20
>=20
> --
> Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie
> bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx

Brian,

There are other options besides moving the data out of the database.
If you have the space, I would not use exp/imp.

search for the dbms_redefinition package (EE required).
One could also rename/create table as select off of the old table and
rebuild the indexes/constraints afterwards.

Paul

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