If you are migrating a partitioned table from a SQL Server instance the below SQL can help you to interrogate the number of rows that are in each partition. Keep in mind that if the same partitioning ...

Azure SQL Database supports horizontal partitioning of table data for manageability and performance benefits as explained in the docs. Although most of this capability is explained and documented in ...

SQL Server partitioned views make rows of all partitions appear as a single table; distributed partitioned views enable partitioning data across multiple linked servers, not just filegroups, for ...

These are enabled by default on indexes. SQL Server 2008 R2 also supports table partitioning. Because partitions divide data into separate objects, partitioning tables can improve overall performance.