First of all, test is the truth! Second, maybe you can use 'maxvalue' to contain other records. On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:31:57 -0000 "John Dunn" <jdunn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a table which has a date column I would like to use for range > partitioning. > However, looking at the documentation examples it appears necessary to > specify specific ranges when creating the table >=20 > e.g. >=20 > PARTITION part1 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE (01-APR-1994, DD-MON-YYYY), > PARTITION part1 VALUES GREATER THAN TO_DATE (01-APR-1994, DD-MON-YYYY), > Is it always necessary to provide specific range values? What happens at > time moves on. Is it necessary to repartition the table to add new time > periods? > Or is it possible to specify ranges relative to SYSDATE e.g SYSDATE - 30, > SYSDATE - 60 etc > John >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --=20 Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> =C4=C7=C3=B4=B6=E01G=B5=C4=D3=CA=CF=E4=A3=AC=CE=D2=C4=DC=D3=C3=C0=B4=B8=C9= =CA=B2=C3=B4:-) A Oracle8i & 9i Certified DBA from China -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l