Simple Partitioning in 9i

With Oracle 9i, there are two ways to implement simple partitioning: with range partitioning (exactly the same as shown in the prior section) or with list partitioning (as shown below):

 CREATE TABLE POS_DAY_LST PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 89 PARALLEL (DEGREE 10) NOLOGGING PARTITION BY LIST (period_id) ( PARTITION p001 VALUES (1065,1066,1067,1068,1069,1070,1071,1072), PARTITION p002 VALUES (1073,1074,1075,1076,1077,1078,1079,1080), PARTITION p003 VALUES (1081,1082,1083,1084,1085,1086,1087,1088), PARTITION p004 VALUES (1089,1090,1091,1092,1093,1094,1095,1096), PARTITION p005 VALUES (1097,1098,1099,1100,1101,1102,1103,1104), PARTITION p006 VALUES (1105,1106,1107,1108,1109,1110,1111,1112), PARTITION p007 VALUES (1113,1114,1115,1116,1117,1118,1119,1120), ...

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