I have used it with great success. I had a large number of tables we wanted to repartition and wrote a couple of stored procedures to accomplish it. The dbms_Redefinition worked very well. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Uzzell, Stephan <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 11.2.0.3.7 on OEL 6, in case that matters. > > > > We've been looking into partitioning some large tables (5 trillion rows, > 1TB) so that we can better manage them (drop old data, &c.). Right now I'd > say dbms_redefinition may be the leading candidate, because Oracle says it > is an online operation. I've been burned by Oracle's idea of "online" > operations before - alter index rebuild online, if the code is optimized / > hinted to use that index, may be online as far as Oracle is concerned, but > it sure wasn't for the end users. > > > > So I'm wondering - has anyone used dbms_redefinition to partition large > tables? Is it truly online? Can Oracle keep up with inserts in the meantime? > > > > We are thinking about using RAT to try to play back a typical workload, > but before we open another can of Oracle worms, I figured a question to the > list might be a good place to start. > > > > Thanks! > > > > *Stephan Uzzell* > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'