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Partition Pruning and Joins (Doc ID 179518.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

This article explains some of the problems people may be having with understanding partition pruning/elimination.

This article covers partition pruning that relies on data from another table to provide partition key information. It does not cover pruning that is enabled by predicates against the partition key on the partition table.

Scope

 Customers, Oracle Support Engineers

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