• If you have a partitioned table, as in CREATE TABLE ... ON <PartitionScheme(Column)>, then the query as you've written will work. A partitioned table is one table, you query it as a single table.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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