Thanks all for the ressponse. Still testing and will share results. -Michael. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:52 AM, rjamya <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I saw this first in early 10g versions of plain vanilla compression (not > fancy oltp etc). We were analyzing http/smtp logs collected company-wide, > Initially we had daily partitions. since it started getting large quickly > (we had open web at that time), I introduced partition compression, it > worked like magic. When updates (due to occasional re-loads, corrections, > ranking etc) to compressed partitions took long, we redesigned our > strategy. Kept 7 days worth of parttions uncompressed, and everything older > was compressed. That worked out well in the end. I guess the update issue > on compressed data still needs work then :) > Raj > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l