How To Attach The Existing Table To New Partition Function/scheme?

Normally we create a new table for tabler partitioning, like:




Code Snippet
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Sales]
(
[SalesID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[SalesDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
[col_01] varchar(50) NULL,
[col_02] varchar(50) NULL,
..
) ON [ps_Sales](SalesDate)
GO







with




Code SnippetCREATE PARTITION SCHEME [ps_Sales]
AS
PARTITION PFN_Sales TO ([FG_20080501], [FG_20080516], [FG_20080601], [FG_20080616],
[FG_20080701], [FG_20080716], [FG_20080801], [FG_20080816],
[FG_20080901], [FG_20080916], [FG_20081001], [FG_20081016])






But what if I have [dbo].[Sales] existed in db, that have attached to [PRIMARY]?

Alter table?

or I need to create a temp table first?