feature not enabled: Partitioning

Dear All,

I am using oracle 8.1.7.0 Enterprise Edt. as a database for SAP BW.

While I am doing some operation (in this operation internaly SAP is creating table in which using table partition)then I am getting following error:

_ORA-00439: feature not enabled: Partitioning
_DDL time(___1): ........62 milliseconds
_The SQL statement was not executed
_Table /BIC/B0000122000 (Error adjusting the database)
_Table /BIC/B0000122000 was not activated

My question is:

How to enable partition option for oracle database.

Waiting for your valuble reply and suggetions.

Regards
Imtiaz

When installing oracle, select 'custom' install instead of 'typical'.

In the ensuing screens, select partitioning as one of the options to be installed. partititoning is not a default option when u do a typical install.

HTH.