12c Partitioning Enhancements, New Features (Doc ID 1568010.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

The document provides references to the 12c partition specific features, enhancements.

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Enhanced composite partitioning strategies

Numerous improvements to partition maintenance operations

Online Partition move

Multiple partitions can be added, dropped, truncated, merged with one DDL command:

Similarly a partition can be split into multiple partitions in one go:

Optimized Global index maintenance during drop or truncate partition

Partial indexing

Partition Advisor

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) integration

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