Maintaining Partitioned Views

Hello,

I have a large set of data that I have set up as a partitioned view.
The view is partitioned by a datetime column and the individual tables
each represent one month's worth of data. I need to keep at least two
year's worth of data at all times, but after two years I can archive
the data. A sample of the code used is below. It is simplified for
space reasons.

My question is, how do other people maintain the database in this type
of scenario? I could create all of the tables necessary for the next
year and then go through that at the end of each year (archive tables
over two years, add new tables, and change the view), but I was also
thinking that I might be able to write a stored procedure that runs
once a month and does all three of those tasks automatically. It seems
like a lot of dynamic SQL code though for something like that.
Alternatively, I could write VB code to handle it in a DTS package.
So, my question again is, how are others doing it? Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-Tom.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Station_Events_200401] (
[event_time] [datetime] NOT NULL ,
[another_column] [char] (8) NOT NULL )
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Station_Events_200402] (
[event_time] [datetime] NOT NULL ,
[another_column] [char] (8) NOT NULL )
GO

CREATE VIEW Station_Events
AS
SELECT event_time,
another_column
FROM Station_Events_200401
UNION ALL
SELECT event_time,
another_column
FROM Station_Events_200402
GO