SQL Server's partitioned views let organizations tune their systems to handle a lot of data. This feature lets you partition data across several tables; logically uniting the tables via a view makes the partitioning as transparent as possible to users and developers. Several previous articles (including two by Kalen Delaney and me, "Distributed Partitioned Views," August 2000, InstantDoc ID 9086, and "Querying Distributed Partitioned Views," September 2000, InstantDoc ID 9097) covered partition...