Go read this:
http://www.evdbt.com/TGorman%20TD2005%20DWScale.doc
This works.
Do you have the challenge of having the staging area be accessible to online query, or late-arriving data (for example, can you get a row today for any day than today/yesterday)?
I've got code which does scan through my data set of records which I'm going to be loading, and marks the local index subpartitions if the table subpartition is going to be modified. (I'm using this instead of Tim Gorman's reference above because I've got late-arriving data and the need to have the staging area and the warehouse proper available to end users simultaneously.)
My table is range/list, not range/hash. so you're going to have to modify it some, probably using the ORA_HASH function to find the right subpartition(s). I also write out to a table which subpartitions I'm going to mark as unusable, so I can do all of that in a single pass. It may be slightly more efficient to mark all the subpartition's indexes as unusable in a single ALTER TABLE statement; I was originally only disabling the BITMAP indexes, but even having a single B*tree indexes offline during the data load improved efficiency significiantly.
procedure DISABLE_LOCAL_INDEXES as
l_part_name varchar2(30);
l_subpart_name varchar2(30);
l_sql varchar2(2000);
type partition_rec_type is record
(table_name varchar2(30),
partition_name varchar2(30),
subpartition_name varchar2(30),
list_value varchar2(10),
min_ts timestamp,
max_ts timestamp);
type partition_recs_type
is table of partition_rec_type;
l_partition_recs partition_recs_type := partition_recs_type();
l_partition_rec partition_rec_type;
l_subpart_id number := 1;
l_start_ts timestamp;
l_end_ts timestamp;
l_found_list_part boolean;
begin
-- build set of subpartitions
l_start_ts := to_timestamp ('1970-01-01', 'yyyy-mm-dd');
for i in (select p.table_name, p.partition_name, sp.subpartition_name,
p.high_value as part_high_value,
sp.high_value as subpart_high_value,
p.partition_position, sp.subpartition_position
from user_tab_subpartitions sp
inner join user_tab_partitions p
on p.table_name = sp.table_name
and p.partition_name = sp.partition_name
where p.table_name = 'MY_TARGET_TABLE'
order by p.partition_position, sp.subpartition_position)
loop
if ( (i.partition_position <> 1) and (i.subpartition_position = 1) ) then
l_start_ts := l_end_ts + to_dsinterval('0 00:00:00.000000001');
end if;
if (i.subpartition_position = 1) then
l_end_ts := high_val_to_ts (i.part_high_value);
l_end_ts := l_end_ts - to_dsinterval('0 00:00:00.000000001');
end if;
l_partition_rec.table_name := i.table_name;
l_partition_rec.partition_name := i.partition_name;
l_partition_rec.subpartition_name := i.subpartition_name;
l_partition_rec.list_value := i.subpart_high_value;
l_partition_rec.min_ts := l_start_ts;
l_partition_rec.max_ts := l_end_ts;
l_partition_recs.extend();
l_partition_recs(l_subpart_id) := l_partition_rec;
l_subpart_id := l_subpart_id + 1;
end loop;
-- for every combination of list column and date column
-- which is going to be pushed to MY_TARGET_TABLE
-- find the subpartition
-- otherwise find the partition and default subpartition
for i in (select distinct LIST_COLUMN, DATE_COLUMN as DATE_VALUE
from MY_SOURCE_TABLE
where IT_IS_BEING_MOVED_TO_TARGET IS TRUE)
loop
-- iterate over the partitions
l_found_list_part := false;
for k in l_partition_recs.first..l_partition_recs.last
loop
-- find the right partition / subpartition for list_value / date_value
if ( (i.DATE_VALUE >= l_partition_recs(k).min_ts)
and (i.DATE_VALUE <= l_partition_recs(k).max_ts) ) then
if (l_found_list_value = false) then
if (to_char(i.LIST_COLUMN, '9999') = l_partition_recs(k).LIST_COLUMN) then
l_found_list_value := true;
elsif (l_partition_recs(k).LIST_COLUMN = 'DEFAULT') then
l_partition_rec := l_partition_recs(k);
end if;
end if;
end if;
end loop; -- over l_partition_recs
-- log those partitions for later index rebuild
begin
insert into index_subpart_rebuild
(table_name, partition_name, subpartition_name)
values
(l_partition_rec.table_name, l_partition_rec.partition_name,
l_partition_rec.subpartition_name);
exception
when dup_val_on_index then null;
when others then raise;
end;
end loop; -- over MY_TARGET_TABLE.DATE_VALUE values
commit;
for i in (select ui.index_name, uis.subpartition_name
from user_indexes ui
inner join user_ind_subpartitions uis
on ui.index_name = uis.index_name
inner join index_subpart_rebuild re
on re.subpartition_name = uis.subpartition_name
where ui.table_name = 'MY_TARGET_TABLE')
loop
l_sql := 'alter index ' || i.index_name ||
' modify subpartition ' || i.subpartition_name || ' unusable';
execute immediate l_sql;
end loop;
end DISABLE_LOCAL_INDEXES;