Thanks for your reply,
I gonna try your suggestion.
Andi
Nikolas Everett wrote:
> There is no fast way to split an existing table into partitions.
> Create a new parent table, create partitions, create the insert
> trigger, and then INSERT INTO newparent SELECT * FROM unpartitioned.
> You may want to split that into groups if you have many millions of rows.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andreas Jochem <andruit@gmx.de
> <mailto:andruit@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a question concerning the topic patitioning.
>
> I have a table with millions of records and I would like to
> partition it. I have already read the documentation but it could
> not answer my question.
>
> My question is, the following:
> Do I have to create the master and child tables and so on before
> inserting the data or is it also possible to partition a table
> which already contains millions of records??? And how can I do
> this??? Has anybody done this before???
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andi
>
>
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