Displaying information about a table’s partitions

You can view a table’s partitioning information from the Partitions tab of the table’s property sheet.

StepsDisplaying information about a table’s partitions

  1. Right-click the table name.

    The Table Properties sheet displays.

  2. Select the Partitions tab.

The Partitions tab shows this information:

Table 17-3: Partitions tab display

Name

Description

Strategy

The table’s partitioning strategy: range, list, hash, or round-robin

Partition Key

The table’s partition key columns and their datatypes (not applicable for round-robin partitions)

Number of Partitions

The number of data partitions