Copying data files to separate partition

I am using Oracle 9i Release 2 with Windows XP and I would like to store the tablespace or data files on a separate raw partition. I was told that this could increase performance. How would I go about doing this?
Thank you,
Malina

First, to the best of my knowledge, Windows doesn't support raw partitions. I've only ever heard of using raw partitions on Unix.
Second, this is one of those things that if you have to ask the question, it's probably not appropriate. Raw disk partitions are significantly harder to manage than normal partitions, so if you don't have the storage administration background to deal with this added complexity, it's really not worth it.
Third, the performance difference between raw disk and normal partitions is pretty small and affects only certain operations. The difference for most systems will be small-- unless you have run out of other things to tune and really need a couple of % boost, I wouldn't even consider this.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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