Hello, > If you don't specify GLOBAL, then a local partitioned index will be created. I'd formulate it as follows If you specify LOCAL instead of GLOBAL, then a local partitioned index will be created. I was not able to verify it in the documentation, but test (10.2.0.3) shows no difference between the options: ALTER TABLE fct ADD CONSTRAINT fct_pk PRIMARY KEY (key) USING INDEX; and ALTER TABLE fct ADD CONSTRAINT fct_pk PRIMARY KEY (key) USING INDEX GLOBAL; In both cases a nonpartitioned index is created. The difference start by adding the global index properties such as ALTER TABLE fct ADD CONSTRAINT fct_pk PRIMARY KEY (key) USING INDEX GLOBAL partition by hash (key) partitions 2 In this case a global partitioned index is created. Regards, Jaromir