Using Partition -1

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USING PARTITION
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PARTITION BY RANGE-as per Oracle 8
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[code=oracle]
CREATE TABLE RANGEPART
(
ID NUMBER(2) PRIMARY KEY,
NAME VARCHAR2(20)
)
PARTITION BY RANGE(ID)
(
PARTITION P1 VALUES LESS THAN(10),
PARTITION P2 VALUES LESS THAN(20),
PARTITION P3 VALUES LESS THAN(MAXVALUE)
);
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here in the sample code it creates a table with there parttions
1st value <10
2nd value 10-19
3rd 20 onwards

SAPMLE CODE FOR CREATING PARTITON BY HASH-as per 8i
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[code=oracle]
CREATE TABLE HASHPART
(
ID NUMBER(10) PRIMARY KEY,
NAME VARCHAR2(20)
)
PARTITION BY HASH(NAME)
PARTITIONS 5;
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In this case user can't specify the name of partitions only number .
In this case it creates 5 partitions.

SAMPLE CODE FOR CREATING PARTITIONS BY LIST-as per 9i
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[code=oracle]
CREATE TABLE LISTPART
(
ID NUMBER(10) PRIMARY KEY,
NAME VARCHAR2(20)
)
PARTITION BY LIST(NAME)
(
PARTITION P1 VALUES ('A','B'),
PARTITION P2 VALUES ('C','D'),
PARTITION P3 VALUES ('E','F')
);
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this type of partitons is mainly used for character datatypes.



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