Re: ASM and partitioning
- From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "thomas.kellerer@xxxxxxxxxx" <thomas.kellerer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:17:26 -0600
Partitioning a table In Asm works just find. This has to be a newbie, some
storage hardware recommends not putting a partition on a device when using it
with ASM, but there is no problem with Oracle partitioning.
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On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Thomas Kellerer <thomas.kellerer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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