Does SQL Server 2000 support table partitions? (such that the table contents
can be spread into several files based on a column or two).
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Yes and no. You can partition specific indexes onto specific files or filegroups. The data will reside with the primary key. There isn't any functionality to split data within a table into separate files groups based on a constraint. That being said, you CAN partition a table across multiple servers based on a column constraint. This is called distributed partitioned views.
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This was first published in April 2002
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