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Hey guys how are you?

Today I’ll post something that is very simple but very useful specially when working with ODI.

When we work with partitioned table we know that if we filter that table by the partitioned column Oracle will use that partition as source of data. But what if we are doing an Insert, Update or Merge?

There’s another way to explicit refer to a partition and make sure Oracle will be working inside that one and is by defining it in the From clause.

For example if I want to query the Partition “DELL_BALANCES_FY20_FEB” I can query:

As we can see, after the table name I specified the PARTITION (DELL_BALANCES_FY20_FEB) and put inside the parentheses the partition name (don’t specify as string) and that makes oracle distinct all the rows in that partition, and my Distinct of the PARTITION_KEY shows only one results as expected. (this command needs to come before the table alias).

If we are doing an Insert, Update or Merge the idea is the same:

This way we can, specially in the MERGE, make sure Oracle will be working in the right partition in the target table.

And it’s specially useful with ODI because we always know the partition we want to query or insert data when we use ODI, then we can always bind Oracle to a specific partition and make sure he’ll stay there.

I hope this is help full and see you soon.

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