There are many business cases where you need to identify in which partition is a particular value located. This query will help you to do so.
-- this particular example extracts date... feel free to modify it according to your needs WITH w_data AS (SELECT table_name ,partition_name ,to_date(TRIM('''' FROM regexp_substr( extractvalue( dbms_xmlgen.getxmltype('SELECT high_value FROM dba_tab_partitions WHERE 1=1 AND table_name='''||table_name ||''' AND table_owner = '''||table_owner ||''' AND partition_name = '''||partition_name ||''' ') , '//text()' ) , '''.*?''' ) ) , 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' ) high_value_in_date_format FROM dba_tab_partitions WHERE table_name = 'SAMPLE_TABLE' AND table_owner = 'SAMPLE_OWNER') SELECT table_name ,partition_name ,high_value_in_date_format ,lead(high_value_in_date_format) over(PARTITION BY table_name ORDER BY partition_name DESC) as value_from ,high_value_in_date_format - 1 as value_to FROM w_data