Dynamic table partitioning in Oracle

Question

I\'m in the process of building a database storage for my app consisting on a single table with a huge data volume (hundreds of millions of records). I\'m planning on having an

Answer 1

In 11g we can define INTERVAL partitions, and Oracle will automatically create new partitions when it gets new records whose keys don't fit in any of the existing ranges. This is a very cool feature. Find out more.

One thing to bear in mind is that Partitioning is a chargeable extra on top of the Enterprise Edition license. So it is not cheap to use.