This post is meant to be a quick primer on Table Partitioning in SQL Server. What is it? Let's say you have a large table that is accepting a lot of transactions, partitioning allows you to scale this particular table out into different (physical partitions). Thus spreading out the I/O across multiple files and even disks. Why do I need it? While the integrity of the data or table remains intact, almost transparent to front end queries (still seen as a single table), but the