Query Needed for Partitioning table

Question

Hi,
I have created a table called Test. There is a column named business_name.
There are several businesses like ABC,BCD,ADE....
There will be lakhs of rows corresponding to each business, i mean there will be lakhs of entires corresponding to ABC,BCD....
So i like to partition the table according to business_name so that the search will be more faster.As we had partitioned according to the business_name, i hope we need to search only on the partition corresponding to the particular business.
can any one provide the Query to partition the table ' TEST ' according to the column ' business_name ' .
Also can anyone provide Query to modify the already existing table ' TEST ' to incorporate partition for the column ' business_name '.

Answer 1

We can partiton a table by the following
create table Generalledger (
     record_id     number,
     business_name     varchar2(3)
     sales_dt     date,
     amount     number(10)
partition by list (business_name)
partition ct values ('ABC'),
partition ca values ('BCD'),
partition def values (default)
But if we dont know the values like 'ABC' , 'BCD'
....how can we do the partitionuse SQL to generate part (or all) of your DDL statement. The following will output one partition statement for each business_name:
SELECT DISTINCT 'partition p_' || BUSINESS_NAME || ' values (''' ||
                 BUSINESS_NAME || '''),'
FROM GENERALLEDGER;