12.2 Partitions

At the end of my presentation to the UKOUG Database SIG yesterday I summed up (most) of points I’d made with a slide making the claim:

In 12.2 you can: Convert a simple table to partitioned with multi-column automatic list partitions, partially indexed, with read only segments, filtering out unwanted data, online in one operation.

Last night I decided I ought to demonstrate the claim – so here’s a little code, first creating a simple heap table:

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