ITE 5323 Data Warehouse Fundamentals

Lab Exercise 2 – Partition by range

Due Date: As per BlackBoard, 2023

You will be creating a new table that will contain partitions. Then insert rows into to your new table to see
how partitions organize the inserted data.

You will work with your cloud image and the Data Warehouse image for all steps in this lab.

You will produce a report of your findings. Use screen captures to capture the screens in vCloud and
compile these into a Word document. Document each step you go through, do not simply copy, and paste
screen captures with no supporting details. Label each screen so you know what it was.

Part A

1. Connect as the SYSTEM user in SQL Developer to accomplish this. Oracle, root passwords – oracle
2. Sys, system passwords – Oracle01

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3. Create new user as ‘exercise2’ and Create a SQL Developer connection for our new user EXERCISE2.
Save this new connection.

Connection Established.

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Part B

Include a screen capture for each of the tables you create.

While we are connected to the SYSTEM user, we will require 4 storage locations for data for this exercise. We
need to create 4 tablespaces. A tablespace is a location in Oracle to store data. These will refer to a datafile in
the OS.

4. Create 4 tablespace of size 10M.

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5. Give your new user EXERCISE2 the ability to store data in the new tablespace areas you created.
There would be statements for Q1, Q2, Q4 and Q3.

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Part C

6. You will now connect as your new user EXERCISE2 to create a new table invoices with fields
invoice_no primary key,invoice_date not null and comments .
Invoices(invoice_no,invoice_date ,comments)

7. This table will contain partitions by range invoice_date. Check the table will be based on the year
2020. The partitions will divide the year into quarters, Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4. The 4 tablespaces we
created were created to store rows of data, one for each quarter.

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8. You will now insert some rows into your new table. You have to insert rows with different date
values to represent the 4 quarters in our table. Your Insert row must use the year 2021.

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9. Display all the rows entered in the invoices table.

10. Display the contents of each partition that was created in your invoices table.

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Check the Data has been organized into the partitions based on the invoice_date or not, write your conclusion.

- The data is not completely organised in the partitions. The Partition 3 and 4 has the data whereas 1 and 2
does not display any data because of the date.