Re: sane number of the table partitions in DWH

  • From: Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke@xxxxxx>
  • To: makulev@xxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:30:21 +0200

Milen,

> Developers want to partition a (fact) table(s) to the smallest slice possible.
> The number of calculated/estimated partitions is 200 000 - 300 000 (Yep, this 
> is NOT a typing error !).

the oracle limit for the number of partitions per table is  64k - 1  in 
database version 10

> My questions:
> 1) What is the "manageable" number of partitions (from performance point of 
> view == parse times) that I you have seen by clients. 
> 2) Any parameters (also underscore ...) to reduce the hard-parse times 
> (because of the enormous amount of partitions) ?
> 3) If I have so many partitions , what is the influence on the fragmentation 
> of the shared pool? Any experiences ?
> 4) Is multi-column partitioning  a save bet (bugs) ? 
> Is is running stable ? 
> Are any special one-off patches on top of 10.2.0.4 needed ? 

the patch is named version 11g which then will allow 1024k - 1 partitions per 
table


regards


kf





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