Partition by hour

Hello,
Is there an automatic partition method that can have a partition for one hour.
and another partition for the other times?
example.
table
ID NUMBER
DD DATE
partition p1 when DD between sysdate and sysdate-1/24
partition p2 for other values
tnx

No there isn't such a method.
It just not possible to define a partition like your p1 partition because sysdate is not a constant value. Oracle would have to check every second if any row has to be move from p1 to p2 and this definitely doesn't make any sense.

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All,
My developers are wanting to find a way to partition their data based on the date the record was inserted into the database (stored in a TIMESTAMP datatype), but they want to be able to partition by the HOUR OF DAY the record came in. For example everything that comes in between midnight and 00:59 in one bucket, from 1am - 1:59 am in another bucket, etc. This data is very dynamic and is deleted every 24 hours. Is this possible? Oracle 9.2.0.4

If the goal is to improve the performance of the purge process, partitioning can definitely help, since you can drop a partition almost instantly (and assuming you don't have any global indexes that would have to be rebuilt).
What sort of queries are being done? Partitioning is generally useless to harmful for single-row queries which are looking up rows via keys. Partitioning is helpful if you are issuing queries that return (or process) largish numbers of rows if all those largish rows are located in a single partition. Queries that process largish numbers of rows that are spread across multiple partitions are generally slower than the same query on a nonpartitioned table. If you have reports that need to process every row from a particular hour, for example, partitioning by hour would be great. If you're trying to find and update a single row based on a key, partitioning is rather useless.
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CREATE TABLE "BDub122"."EVENT"
( "EVENT_ID" NUMBER(20,0),
"END_TIME" TIMESTAMP (3)
) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1
STORAGE(
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT
CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
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STORAGE(INITIAL 8M NEXT 1M MINEXTENTS 1 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1
FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT
CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "EVENT_DATA",
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SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 NOLOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 8M NEXT 1M MINEXTENTS 1 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1
FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT
CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
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The table creates fine, but I want:
1.] To verify that I have the syntax right to accomplish what I'm trying to do.
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Edited by: BDub122 on Mar 19, 2013 8:33 AM

Works for me:
CREATE TABLE EVENT
( "EVENT_ID" NUMBER(20,0),
"END_TIME" TIMESTAMP (3)
SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE
PARTITION BY RANGE ("END_TIME")
INTERVAL(NUMTODSINTERVAL(4, 'HOUR')) -- Partition every 4 hours
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insert into event values (1, sysdate - 4/24)
insert into event values (1, sysdate)
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SYS_P230
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Also assume that powerful computers, such as SPARC M9000, can be employed under such a scenario.
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I did see your other thread, but kept away from it because it seemed to be getting a bit heated. Some points I did notice:
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Guess2 wrote:
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Some thoughts that might help clear up a few points:
If the SELECT is interpreted as a SELECT FOR UPDATE it might well place a lock. Locking for half an hour seems a very long time but that will depend on how long the transaction containing that SELECT lasts and in real life they can last even longer. As to performance impacts, of course it depends if something else will require those rows that are locked in the meantime. If the transaction is running by itself and there is no other activity then it may not be a problem placing a lock. If on the other hand some thing else is looking for the locked rows then they will have to wait.
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If you need further help I suggest you include some more details like the following:
1) Oracle DB version and os
2) Where are these transactions (SELECTS) being launched from and if possible some sample SELECTS that you are launching
3) Which queries are you using on TOAD to view these locks ?
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Regards

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This is my first post, but I'm a long time searcher. I usually find what I'm looking for, but in this case I thought best to ask. I hope I follow the correct etiquette!
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I know that my answer is not much help. Sorry about that. Maybe someone else will chime in with some more useful information. If they don't I guess that you're just going to have to take a plunge =-(

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