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What has to be done to introduce range partitions into an existing non-partitioned table in oracle? Is there an easy to do and safe way to do this?

Especially in cases where there are many constraints on the table like foreign keys.

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I think this document will demonstrate the steps needed. IT is not a non-trivial thing to do.

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Thanks! Is there a reason why oracle doesn't provide a possibility to do this with a simple "alter table partition ..." statement? – lewap Mar 10 '11 at 16:57
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I suspect Oracle doesn't provide a simpler syntax because people with large, unpartitioned existing tables will frequently want to have very fine-grained control about how they move their data to a partitioned table. Doing an exchange partition and then splitting the partitions can be syntactically straightforward but generate substantial performance problems. Creating a new table with the appropriate partitions and moving the data over can be parallelized and is relatively simple but it generally requires downtime. Using DBMS_REDEFINITION can be done online but may require monitoring. – Justin Cave Mar 10 '11 at 22:25

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