Move Data one table to another table.

When we comes to Table designing and the table is very large table, then we can consider Table-Partitioning is most important factor. using above concept we can gain huge Performance and very easy to manage table containing records. In this topic I’m not going to discuss all about Table-Partitioning. But this is more related Table-Partitioning. If we want to move one particular range of data or all records of data one table to another table then Table-Partitioning come and play big role. This is less time consuming process.

/* Formatted on 2009/12/30 20:36 (Formatter Plus v4.8.7) */
CREATE TABLE sourceTable(
column_num NUMBER(18,0),
column_chr VARCHAR2(2)
)
PARTITION BY RANGE (column_num)
(
PARTITION tab_h1 VALUES LESS THAN
(11),
PARTITION tab_h2 VALUES LESS THAN
(21)
);

--Insert test Records
INSERT INTO sourceTable
SELECT ROWNUM, somecode
FROM (SELECT ROWNUM noofrows,'TD' somecode
FROM dba_objects)
WHERE noofrows < 21;

COMMIT ;

--Check no of records in Table
SELECT count(*)
FROM sourceTable;

SELECT *
FROM sourceTable;



--Create test Table 2
CREATE TABLE DestinationTable(
column_num NUMBER(18,0),
column_chr VARCHAR2(2)
);

--check step 1
ALTER TABLE sourceTable
EXCHANGE PARTITION tab_h1
WITH TABLE DestinationTable;

--or check step 2
ALTER TABLE sourceTable
EXCHANGE PARTITION tab_h2
WITH TABLE DestinationTable;


SELECT *
FROM sourcetable;

SELECT *
FROM DestinationTable;



--drop test tables
DROP TABLE sourceTable;
DROP TABLE destinationTable;



Many time we have done “create table as select …“(PL/SQL), “Inseet into select…”(T/SQL) commands to move data one table to new table or given table. But above methods high costly and time consuming operations (EXCHANGE PARTITION command just take 1 ms to move millions of records). Good news is SQL Server also support above PARTITION method but only SQL Server 2005 and 2008 versions only.