Are there any case studies on the performance for partitioning tables in SQL Server? There is a case study with Bid2Win and in memory tables, I would like something similar for table partitioning.
Background:
Most of our tables contain a company column that we are looking to partition some of the larger tables on. From reading about table partitioning this can result in partition elimination and reduced lock escalation. Is there a real world case study and white paper on a company that has improved performance dramatically by adding partitions to multiple tables.
I understand that it really depends on what the query is doing and can hinder performance on queries that don’t have the partition key in the selection criteria. Pretty much that is all I can find online other than the cool stuff like deleting large amounts of data.
Thanx, Adam