What is the nature of the column you're partitioning on? How many unique values does that column have? -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dba DBA Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:24 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Are hash sub-partitions balanced? Followup. So we loaded some skewed data and tihs is a rolliup from my sub-partitions spread across several partitions and I this does not appear to be very well balanced. Is this something I can expect? I am following the power of 2 with 16 hash sub-partitions. I am also going to get more data loaded. I just analyzed the table with granularity='ALL' select subpartition_position,sum(num_rows) from user_tab_subpartitions where table_name = '<my table>' group by subpartition_position order by 1 / SUBPARTITION_POSITION SUM(NUM_ROWS) --------------------- -------------------- 1 18,337 2 32,184 3 18,259 4 22,271 5 6,944 6 15,905 7 28,929 8 41,466 9 19,585 10 21,391 11 23,895 12 8,206 13 26,849 14 12,293 15 21,284 16 8,395 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l