Hi all
I am new to partitioning and it's something that I have started looking at.
Most of the explanations that I have seen for partitioning incudes the sentence "The data of partitioned tables and indexes is divided into units that can be spread across more than one filegroup in a database"
Does this mean that I will only see the benefit of partitioning if I have more that one filegroup in my database?
When my data is partitioned and I query the table, does SQL Server know which partition it needs to go to get the data?
Are there any performance downfalls with inserting/updating data in a partitioned table?
Thanks