So you have average row size =3D 1 ? Waleed -----Original Message----- From: ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx [mailto:ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:27 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: anyone ever use sub-partitioning? We have a table which is about 8GB with about 8 billion records. We add = deltas to the file daily(inserts,updates,deletes). We are considering paritioning this table so we can use parallel DML. We = are considering partitioning on the primary key to about 10-20 = partitions.=20 Has anyone used hash sub-partitioning? What are your experiences with = that? I'd like to have granularity smaller than 400-800 MB per = partition.=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------