• You are highly unlikely to achieve anything other than adding complexity and wasting time. Partitioning is not a performance optimisation (mostly), it's for ease of maintenance, loading and deleting rows.

    Partitioning a table so that is it useful requires a careful choice of partitioning column based on the data and the queries, and a semi-random hash is highly unlikely to be useful.

    Honestly, don't go this route.

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