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Here is a great article on it<br />
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345146(SQL.90).aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345146(SQL.90).aspx</a><br />

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Here is a great article on it
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345146(SQL.90).aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345146(SQL.90).aspx]


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Can you elaborate how this will help while multiple partitions are on the same physical disk? &nbsp;Even if it does improve performance, would it be even better to partition accross different physical disks?<br />

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Can you elaborate how this will help while multiple partitions are on the same physical disk?  Even if it does improve performance, would it be even better to partition accross different physical disks?


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Excellent technical reference was provided.
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Excellent technical reference was provided.

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Does partitioning a table help if the data partions for the the table are on the same physical disk?
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Does partitioning a table help if the data partions for the the table are on the same physical disk?

SQL Server 2005 Data Partitioning

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.