drop table DEMO purge; create table DEMO( id INTEGER generated always as identity ,day DATE not null ,code VARCHAR2(2) not null ,val NUMBER not null ,PRIMARY KEY(id) ) partition by range(day)( partition P_2024_01 values less than (date'2024-02-01') ,partition P_2024_02 values less than (date'2024-03-01') ,partition P_2024_03 values less than (date'2024-04-01') ,partition P_2024_04 values less than (date'2024-05-01') ,partition P_2024_05 values less than (date'2024-06-01') ,partition P_2024_06 values less than (date'2024-07-01') ,partition INFINITY values less than (MAXVALUE) ) ; create index IDX_VAL on DEMO(val) local; insert /*+ APPEND */ into DEMO (day,code,val) select DATE'2024-01-01' + trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,30*4)) ,DECODE(trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,10)), 1, 'UK' ,2, 'UK' ,3, 'UK' ,4, 'UK' ,5, 'UK' ,6, 'IT' ,7, 'IT' ,8, 'FR' ,9, 'FR' ,10, 'FR' ) ,trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,10000)) from xmltable('1 to 4000000') ; commit; exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user,'DEMO'); exec dbms_stats.delete_table_stats(user,'DEMO'); exec DBMS_STATS.SET_TABLE_PREFS(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', pname=>'INCREMENTAL', pvalue=>'TRUE'); exec DBMS_STATS.SET_TABLE_PREFS(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', pname=>'GRANULARITY', pvalue=>'PARTITION'); exec DBMS_STATS.SET_TABLE_PREFS(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', pname=>'INCREMENTAL', pvalue=>'FALSE'); exec DBMS_STATS.SET_TABLE_PREFS(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', pname=>'GRANULARITY', pvalue=>'AUTO'); execute dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', partname=>'P_2024_01'); execute dbms_stats.delete_table_stats(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', partname=>'P_2024_06'); execute dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', partname=>'P_2024_06'); execute dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname=>'POC',tabname=>'DEMO', partname=>'P_2024_06',granularity=>'PARTITION'); alter table POC.DEMO drop partition P_2024_05 update global indexes; alter table POC.DEMO drop partition P_2024_06 update global indexes; alter table POC.DEMO drop partition INFINITY update global indexes; alter table DEMO set interval(NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1, 'MONTH')); insert /*+ APPEND */ into DEMO (day,code,val) select DATE'2024-07-01' + trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,30*1)) ,DECODE(trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,10)), 1, 'UK' ,2, 'UK' ,3, 'UK' ,4, 'UK' ,5, 'UK' ,6, 'IT' ,7, 'IT' ,8, 'FR' ,9, 'FR' ,10, 'FR' ) ,trunc(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,10000)) from xmltable('1 to 1000000') ; commit;