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deleting old partitions

  • May 14, 2009 at 5:30 am

    #134235

    i have a table partition on the primary key. It creates daily partitions. How do i delete partitions older than 7 days.

    Do i need to use switch? or can i explicitly drop partitions?

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  • May 14, 2009 at 6:23 am

    #994411

    As far as I know explicitily dropping a partition remains to be an Oracle feature; in the SQL Server world you have to switch the partition out.

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  • May 14, 2009 at 6:43 am

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    Check out topic "Readme_SlidingWindow" in BOL !

    With partitioning, preparation is crucial !!

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