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 Move file between filegroups?

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mr_mist
Grunnio

1870 Posts

Posted - 2004-08-31 : 05:58:06
Is it possible to move a FILE from one FILEGROUP to another?

As it is, I've just deleted and re-created, but that is a little more extreme than I would like.

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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2004-08-31 : 12:54:53
Move a file from one filegroup to another? What do you mean? How are files part of filegroups? A filegroup is a file.

Tara
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MuadDBA

628 Posts

Posted - 2004-08-31 : 14:03:43
Um, Tara? Someone hijacked your keyboard!

Filegroups are logical units that extend beyond a single file. Filegroups, as the name suggests, contain multiple files.

So far as I know, there is no way to move a file between filegroups once it has been created...data is "striped" across the files in a filegroup so just isolating one and separating it would be pretty hard.

Why do you need to do this?
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2004-08-31 : 14:12:19
Dangit, I was thinking of something else. Sorry for the confusion.

Tara
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rockmoose
SQL Natt Alfen

3279 Posts

Posted - 2004-08-31 : 14:21:50
ALTER DATABASE REMOVE FILE xxx
ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE xxx TO FILEGROUP

Is all I can come up with.


rockmoose
/* Chaos is the nature of things...Order is a lesser state of chaos */
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mr_mist
Grunnio

1870 Posts

Posted - 2004-09-02 : 05:56:50
How pesky. Though, I suppose, understandable.

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