learn about sqlserver partitition and partition table --- add or remove table partitions addition more

Yes . In the previous. chapter , we see how to generate "partition function" "parttiton schema" and "parttiton table"

what can we do if we need to add or drop an table partition ?

Here is exist status:

/* add partition (oracle)== split partition (oracle,mssql) */
/* drop parttiton (oracle) == merge partition (mssql) */

and

Here we go

/* add partitions */

alter database test add filegroup TESTFG_201602;
alter database test add file (name = TESTFG_201602,filename = "C:\var\opt\mssql\data\TESTFG_201602.ndf",size = 1MB,maxsize = unlimited,filegrowth = 1MB) to filegroup TESTFG_201602;
go
alter partition scheme PS_DATETIME_M_TEST NEXT USED TESTFG_201601;
alter partition function PF_DATETIME_M_TEST() split range ( N'2016-01-02T00:00:00.000');
go

That script has an error. you would see if I execute it

However,  It is right about "less than", because we use range right    --- it will be talk about it in detail

Let get into bussiness, hot to fix that ?

Yes, we merge it

/* drop partitions */
alter partition function PF_DATETIME_M_TEST() merge range (N'2016-01-02T00:00:00.000');
--alter database test remove file TESTFG_201602;
--alter database test remove filegroup TESTFG_201602;

then we can see that return

and we can make it right

alter partition scheme PS_DATETIME_M_TEST NEXT USED TESTFG_201602;
alter partition function PF_DATETIME_M_TEST() split range ( N'2016-02-01T00:00:00.000');
go

Yes. we did it