Posted by eavery on 03/14/07 19:13

I'm assuming that

"However, this operation occurs
offline, and depending on the extent of repartitioning, may be
resource-intensive. "

means that effected indexes/tables etc are locked until the
repartitioning is finished.
(Versus on-line which would allow users to proceed).

As far as the indexes go, it maybe cheaper to drop the index, change
the function, then re-create the index.

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