Eitan Blumin automates creation and deletion of partitions in SQL Server:
Before we begin, there are a few “ground rules” we should understand first:
1 – Partition Functions define the partition ranges
This means that whenever we want to eliminate an old partition range or add a new partition range, the PARTITION FUNCTION is the object that we actually need to modify.
Click through for Eitan’s entire process and a couple of scripts. This is an area that SQL Server could have made a lot easier, especially for periodic processes, by including options like “Daily” or “Monthly” or “Weekly(start on Monday)” for intervals rather than making people specify every partition separately.