All, Running Oracle 10.2.0.4 on Aix. Lets say I have a partitioned table (TABLEA) partitioned by quarter. I also have an archive version of this table (TABLEA_ARCH) that I would like to partition by quarter also. On a regular interval, I want to move all the records from the oldest partition of TABLEA into TABLEA_ARCH. Is this possible? According to the docs, PARTITION EXCHANGE does not support this - when I try and Exchange a partition, it looks like I need to do this to a fresh table. I'm trying to support this data movement within the database and do it as quickly as possible. Any suggestions? Thanks Tom