Hi, Nothing too do with ASM, if properly licensed should work fine. Sent on my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kellerer <thomas.kellerer@xxxxxxxxxx> Sender: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:52:39 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: thomas.kellerer@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: ASM and partitioning Hallo all, we recently suggested to one of our clients to use table partitioning in order to make deleting old stuff from a large table faster. The partition would have been a range partition over a DATE column. We only keep the last 6 months of data in that table and dropping a partition is much faster than deleting 10% of a table with ~50 million rows. Now the (outsourced) DBA of the customer claimed that partitioning is not possible when using ASM (which the production system is using). The production system is a two node RAC running 11.2.0.3 on Oracle Linux (don't know the exact OS version though) I'm pretty sure that this is a wrong statement, but just wanted to confirm this. So: is there any (technical) limitation to table partitioning when using ASM on a RAC system? (licensing is not issue) Thanks in advance Thomas -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l