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“Text/Image Filegroup” is not working

I have created a file with the Logical Name 'Connection' and file group from database properties window. Now I want to assign this file to 'connection' table. So I have done the following steps:- ...
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Autogrow. Primary vs additional data files

My databases all use autogrow, which grows the primary MDF file on a percentage. But one of the databases, from a third party application grows by adding additional .NDF files. Where is this option ...
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Partitioned Views - Storage of Indexes

I have a single table that contains 4 billions rows that I plan on splitting up in to separate tables for each Quarter of the year. Then I want to create a partitioned view across all tables. At the ...
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One filegroup, multiple datafiles, how to get list of tables in each file

In one of my production databases, I have a filegroup with 3 data files sitting on 3 different disks. There are over 50 tables on this filegroup. How do I identify the location of each of the 50 ...
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How to fix filestream?

I have SQL Server 2008 R2, when I try to access any value stored in filestream I get the following error: Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when receiving ...
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Best way to perform backups with filegroups and then restore those backups

Scenario: Database consists of these file groups: PRIMARY xxTEST2 xxTEST3 xxTEST4 Database consists of the following files in those file groups: xxTEST_RESTORE - Rows Data - PRIMARY - ...
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file extension of the file types cdump, incident, trace

I need to know the file extension of the file types cdump, incident, trace, alert. Actually I want to create files of the above types manually using mkfile command. There are no existing files of ...
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SQL Server 2008 DB Performance on single disk

I have a database in SQL Server 2008 with around 20 GB in size. And it is increasing rapidly. Somehow I can not add multiple independent harddisks to increase IO performance. If a add large table ...
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Partitioning on a single filegroup

I have some very large tables in my database, but a substantial chunk of this data is "old". Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am not allowed to remove this "old" data. The other ...
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The backup of the file or filegroup “fileStream” is not permitted, because it is not online

I'm trying to backup a database, which has been created by someone I don't have access to. I get this error message: The backup of the file or filegroup "fileStream" is not permitted, because it ...
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Restore .mdf data file for a File Group in SQL Server

I have a database with three filegroups and each filegroup hosting one datafile. One of the secondary filegroups XYZ with data file xyz.ndf got updated with wrong/bad information in various tables ...
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Why 2 allocation units during online index rebuild to different file group?

I'm in the process of rebuilding the clustered index of a big table to a different file group. I'm monitoring the rebuild process using sys.system_internals_allocation_units. I'm 3h in but not done ...
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Move Primary Key to Filegroup (SQL Server 2012)

How can I move a clustered primary key to a new filegroup? I already have found a possible "algorithm" but it is horribly inefficient: Drop non-clustered indexed (requires them to be resorted and ...
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Creating the database on different file groups

What is the pros and cons of creating the database for a operational system on different file groups? I know it is useful if you want to keep the static part of a database online when the other part ...
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How to move all non-unique and non-clustered indexes to a different filegroup?

I want to move all indexes to a separate hard drive. To that effect, I created a new filegroup, then added a new file to it (e.g. alter database foo add file(...) to FileGroup). Now I want to move ...
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How many files should I create for one filegroup and 9 weekly partitions?

I have 9 weekly partitions on one filegroup. How many files do I need to create? There are 3 tables containing 46 million, 16 million and 10 million rows.
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Query to find optimal filegroups for objects

I have been assigned a task to create four file groups (one per volume) locate tables so that they are located in a manner that during an ETL process no filegroup is being read and written to at the ...
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Sql Server Index Data File Drive Location

As part of my ongoing saga of migrating from one SAN to another, the new SAN vendor said that I need to have my index data file in the same drive as my primary data file. Otherwise, given the tools ...
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Archive a single giant table from a SQL 2008 database - filegroup backup?

I have an extremely large table (400GB data size, inside a 2.5TB database) that is no longer needed. Before we drop it, however, our client contract says we need to archive it to tape in case in needs ...
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CREATE TABLE TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY] is redundant it there's only one filegroup?

I've recently generated scripts for a legacy database, and discovered that most of the tables were created with TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY], but there's only one filegroup. TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY] is ...
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What is the effect on primary keys when moving a CLUSTERED index to a new filegroup?

I'm moving a CLUSTERED index from one filegroup to another, using the with drop_existing=on functionality. Do I need to be concerned about primary keys? In other words, is there some special ...
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What system information is stored in the primary file in SQL Server?

Suppose I have created a new database in SQL Server with a file group FG1 and marked this as the default. All my user tables etc are now created in FG1. However I also created a file that is part of ...
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How can I backup & restore a single FILEGROUP in Sql Server 2008

Previously, on ServerFault I asked a question about backing up and restoring a Sql Server 2008 Filegroup. Today, when I tried to RESTORE one of these FILEGROUP backups, I got the following error:- ...
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SQL 2008, how does it link Full Text Catalog to a filegroup

While creating Full Text Catalog, if "on filegroup" is specified - it creates the catalog on this file, but on MSDN I read "On Filegroup" clause has no affect?
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SQL Server: filegroup for system tables only?

One of our corporate standards to is have a separate filegroup/file for user tables/indexes. This is set as the default so no need to qualify CREATE TABLE statements. So it looks like this fileid ...