Oracle分区表有很多好处，以大化小，一小化了，加上并行的使用，在loap中能往往能提高几十倍甚至几百倍的效果。当然表设计得不好也会适得其反，效果比普通表跟糟糕。
为了更好的使用分区表，这里看一下分区表的执行计划。
PARTITION RANGE ALL：扫描所有分区
PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR：扫描多个分区，小于所有个分区数量
PARTITION RANGE SINGLE：扫描单一的分区
KEY，表示执行时才知道哪个分区
看到关键字ALL的时候就要注意了，扫描的是全部分区。写sql的时候在where条件中能充分利用分区字段来限制的话最好，这样能起到分区裁剪的作用，没必要的分区就不用扫描了。
SQL> create table t1
2 partition by range(created)(
3 partition p1 values less than (to_date('20140101','yyyymmdd')),
4 partition p2 values less than (to_date('20140201','yyyymmdd')),
5 partition p3 values less than (to_date('20140301','yyyymmdd')),
6 partition p4 values less than (to_date('20140401','yyyymmdd')),
7 partition p5 values less than (to_date('20140501','yyyymmdd')),
8 partition p6 values less than (to_date('20140601','yyyymmdd')),
9 partition p7 values less than (to_date('20140701','yyyymmdd')),
10 partition p8 values less than (to_date('20140801','yyyymmdd')),
11 partition p9 values less than (to_date('20140901','yyyymmdd')),
12 partition p10 values less than (to_date('20141001','yyyymmdd')),
13 partition p11 values less than (to_date('20141101','yyyymmdd')),
14 partition p12 values less than (to_date('20141201','yyyymmdd')),
15 partition p13 values less than (maxvalue)
16 )
17 as select * from dba_objects where created>=to_date('20131001','yyyymmdd');
--PARTITION RANGE ALL：扫描所有分区
SQL> explain plan for select count(*) from t1;
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| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop |
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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 106 (1)| 00:00:02 | | |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | | | | |
| 2 | PARTITION RANGE ALL| | 41973 | 106 (1)| 00:00:02 | 1 | 13 |
| 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | T1 | 41973 | 106 (1)| 00:00:02 | 1 | 13 |
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--PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR：扫描多个分区，小于所有个分区数量
SQL> explain plan for select * from t1 where created>=to_date('20141101','yyyymmdd');
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| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop |
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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 13121 | 2267K| 39 (6)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 1 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR| | 13121 | 2267K| 39 (6)| 00:00:01 | 12 | 13 |
|* 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | T1 | 13121 | 2267K| 39 (6)| 00:00:01 | 12 | 13 |
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--PARTITION RANGE SINGLE：扫描单一的分区
SQL> explain plan for select * from t1 where created>=to_date('20141217','yyyymmdd');
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| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop |
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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 947 | 163K| 28 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 1 | PARTITION RANGE SINGLE| | 947 | 163K| 28 (0)| 00:00:01 | 13 | 13 |
|* 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | T1 | 947 | 163K| 28 (0)| 00:00:01 | 13 | 13 |
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