Bitmap Indexes on Partitions without using LOCAL

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Hi everybody!

I created a table with partitions und want to user the so called "user managed partition". That means, i have heard that it is possible to create a bitmap index on this part without using local, like:

create bitmap index xx_bitmap on table(col)
(partition p1,...). This doees not work. But if i use
create bitmap index xx_bitmap on table(col) LOCAL (partition ...) it works. The task is to drop a partition withou affecting another bitmap indexes.

Has anyone experience to help me to find a nice way

:confused:

well if it's local then you can drop partition without affecting other indexes in other partitions

From the Oracle9i SQL Reference:

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You cannot specify BITMAP when creating a global partitioned index

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Which means that a bitmap index has to be local


I also got a short question: what benefit do you exepect of having a global bitmapindex?