Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration From Novice to Professional

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CHAPTER 7 PHYSICAL DATABASE DESIGN
Interval Partitioning
One difficulty with partitioning by monotonically increasing data items such as dates is
that new partitions have to be periodically added to the table; this can be accomplished
using the clause of the command. Interval partitioning eliminates
this difficulty by having Oracle automatically create new partitions as necessary.
The example of the previous section can be rewritten as illustrated in Listing 7-4. Only
one partition called is initially created. New partitions are automatically created
by Oracle as necessary when data is inserted into the table.
Listing 7-4. Example of Interval Partitioning