Sqlism (4/30/2013)
I am worried because it might cause performance issues.
Table partitioning is not about performance but administration.
In most cases a partitioning strategy is based on thinking how to make your life easier when archiving, purging and other processes like these are in the horizon.
No performance gain is achieved just by partitioning a table - a sound indexing strategy and well designed queries are the key for good performance.
Hope this helps.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
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