Suppose I try to setup partition for a large table. because I don't know which way is the better way. So I want to try all of them:
- Range partitioning
- Hash partitioning
- List partitioning
- Round
for my case, with my knowledge, I want to try List and Range firstly, then try Round Robin or Hash.
Looks like if I try list firstly, then I can change partition type to range.
but if I want Round Robin firstly as below:
alter table MyTab partition 4
go
then I try to remove the partition with following way:
alter table MyTab unpartition
go
but there still has one partition remain on MyTab. The partition ID like MyTab_592002109.
How can I remove it completely? then I can try List or Range partition?