Creating partitioned tables and ORA-00922 error

There is a lot of different version of the Oracle Database software and even if the logic and operation of the database is more or less the same across versions, it is also more or less different across versions; for example, there is no drop database sentence in Oracle 9i.

So you work usually with 11g databases and love the tables partitioned by intervals, and you create one:

oracle@my11gdb~$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Wed Feb 8 12:43:42 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> CREATE TABLE MY_TABLE
(   
SOMETEXT     VARCHAR2(4000),
MOREINFO     VARCHAR2(256),
ADATE        DATE
) PARTITION BY RANGE (ADATE)
INTERVAL (NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'day'))
(partition p0 values less than (to_date('01-jan-2000','dd-mon-yyyy'))
);

Table created.

And you try to create that same table in a 10g database just to find that you can't:

oracle@my10gdb~$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Feb 8 12:46:15 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP, Data Mining
and Real Application Testing options

SQL> CREATE TABLE MY_TABLE
(   
SOMETEXT     VARCHAR2(4000),
MOREINFO     VARCHAR2(256),
ADATE        DATE
) PARTITION BY RANGE (ADATE)
INTERVAL (NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'day'))
(partition p0 values less than (to_date('01-jan-2000','dd-mon-yyyy'))
);
INTERVAL (NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'day'))
*
ERROR at line 7:
ORA-00922: missing or invalid option

Look no more: the ORA-00922 error in a 10g database means that you're trying to use a functionality that doesn't exist; in a 11g database it would mean missing brackets or syntax errors.

oracle@my11gdb~$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Wed Feb 8 12:50:54 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> CREATE TABLE MY_TABLE
(   
SOMETEXT     VARCHAR2(4000),
MOREINFO     VARCHAR2(256),
ADATE        DATE
) PARTITION BY RANGE (ADATE)
INTERVAL (NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'day'))
partition p0 values less than (to_date('01-jan-2000','dd-mon-yyyy'));
partition p0 values less than (to_date('01-jan-2000','dd-mon-yyyy'))
*
ERROR at line 8:
ORA-00922: missing or invalid option

More information:

CREATE TABLE (10g Release 2)
CREATE TABLE (11g Release 1)
Partition Administration