Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion

Creating Partitions

Creating partitions is a three-step process. In the first step, a partition function is created. This function defines how the partitions will be formed by specifying how data is divided. The second step is creating the partition scheme. The partition scheme is used to define how the partitions will be physically defined in the database. The third and final step is creating the table or index that uses the partition scheme that you have developed.

Create the Partition Function

The partition function is used to define the criteria for dividing the data into the individual partitions. A partitioned table or index can be made up of as few as one partition (all objects are considered partitioned now) or as many as 1,000 partitions. ...