Retrieve partitioned data in Oracle 8i.

Question

I have the following query.
I want it to retrieve data for 24 months (2 years)
I have to run the query for 24 partitions each partition having one month data,
this query is working on one month data only 200705.
abc>SELECT r.account_id,
2 p.presc_num,
3 spm.product_id,
4 p.month,
5 t.best_call_state,
6 sum(p.trx_count)
7 FROM rlup_assigned_account r,
8 temp_presc_num_TEST t,
9 retail.prescrip_retail partition (PRESC200705) p,
10 sherlock.sherlock_product_mapping spm
11 WHERE spm.product_id like '056%'
12 and t.CLIENT_ID='934759'
13 and spm.mds6 = p.product_id
14 and t.CLIENT_ID = p.presc_num
15 and r.ndc_pyr_id = p.payer_plan
16 and t.best_call_state = r.ST
17 GROUP BY r.account_id,
18 p.presc_num,
19 spm.product_id,
20 p.month,
21 t.best_call_state
22 ;
ACCOUNT_ID PRESC_NUM PRODU MONTH BE SUM(P.TRX_COUNT)
2131 4759 0512 01-MAY-07 1
2131 7599 0567 01-MAY-07 3
2131 9359 0601 01-MAY-07 4
If I access partition data, I do not see any partition created in the schema:
connected to abc schema:
SQL> SELECT table_name,
2 partition_name,
3 high_value,
4 num_rows
5 FROM user_tab_partitions
6 ;
no rows selected
Q1. How do I know what are those 24 partions (apart from using user_tab_partitions),
Q2 How do I use them in the query specified above to retrieve 24 month data from 24 partitions.

Answer 1

... and in answer to question 2, don't specify a partition clause. In fact I would avoid using the partition clause at all and filter on the appropriate month - let the optimizer do the work.