I am trying to partition a huge table in SQL. Its size is 15 TB with millions of records. The main idea is to save the coming data onto different disks by creating new filegroup where the current disk can't be expanded any more.
I created the needed of filegroups, files, partition schema and partition function, but when I created the clustered index it took too much space (more than 200GB) and was still running so I stopped it.
My question: is there a way to partition an existing huge table without creating a clustered index that is taking too much space? Or is there a way to save the new coming data to a different disk?