Certain partition-level operations can concurrently operate on
different partitions of a table. DML can also concurrently operate on the table while the
partition-level online operation is running.
These include:
- alter table … split
partition
- alter table … merge
partition
- alter table … move
partition
- alter table … drop
partition
- truncate partition
- dbcc checkindex
- dbcc checktable
- dbcc tablealloc
- dbcc indexalloc