The topics in this section explain how to use SQL Server Management Studio to create and restore databases, differential databases, transaction logs, and file and filegroup backups. However, for partial or copy-only backups, you must use the Transact-SQL BACKUP statement with the PARTIAL or ...
This option backs up all the read/write filegroups in the database. A backup that is created by specifying READ_WRITE_FILEGROUPS is known as a partial backup. For more information, see Partial Backups. To back up files and filegroups To create a file or filegroup backup, use a BACKUP ...
( NAME = ROFG, FILENAME = '<Installation Drive> :\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\MyReadOnlyFile.ndf', SIZE = 5MB, MAXSIZE = 100MB, FILEGROWTH = 5MB ) TO FILEGROUP MyReadOnlyFG; GO --Create table on the file group CREATE TA...
CREATENONCLUSTEREDINDEX[CL_IX_Column1]ON[dbo].[heap_table] ([column1]ASC )ON[MAIN_FILEGROUP] DROPINDEX[CL_IX_Column1]ON[dbo].[heap_table] GO In order to better design your database structure it is really important to understand how SQL Server works with multiple files within a filegrou...
This Transact-SQL code creates a FILESTREAM-enabled table called Records. To create the table, click Execute. Example When the database has a FILESTREAM filegroup, you can create or modify tables to store FILESTREAM data. To specify that a column contains FILESTREAM data, you create a varbinary...
This topic requires the Archive database that is created in How to: Create a FILESTREAM-Enabled Database. To move a FILESTREAM-enabled database In SQL Server Management Studio, click New Query to open the Query Editor. Copy the following Transact-SQL script into the Query Editor, and then ...
How to create a Read Only Table? Add one file group to database: 1 ALTER DATABASE my_database ADD FILEGROUP [Read_Only] Create a new data file: 1 ALTER DATABASE my_database ADD FILE ( NAME = N'data_file_name', FILENAME = N'D:\data_file_path.ndf' , SIZE = 3072KB , FILEGRO...
The main goal of this blog post is to showcase how you can discover the FILESTREAM assets in your SQL Server by querying the metadata. Some of those metadata queries may not be obvious so sharing this to make it easier 1. Create database with a FILESTREAM filegro...
No, SQL Server don't generate NDF files on it's own, you have to create them manually. See Add Data or Log Files to a Database and ALTER DATABASE File and Filegroup Options (Transact-SQL) Olaf Helper Blog Xing Monday, January 21, 2013 2:01 AM Hi MDF : Datafile ; NDF : Datafile...
Partitioning in SQL Server task is divided into four steps: Create a File Group Add Files to File Group Create a Partition Function with Ranges Create a Partition Schema with File Groups Creating a sample database to perform Table Partitioning in SQL Server: ...