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Script to Transfer Tables to New Filegroups

Dec 29, 2008
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This program will dynamically build and issue drop and alter statements in order to move all the tables in a database to new filegroups. The reasons for having tables in their own filegroups are:

1) It allows table level restore by doing a filegroup recovery with a log restore
2) If you’re not using RAID, then it allows placement of the tables on disk to avoid contention
3) It allows SQL Server to use multiple i/o threads during read operations, especially table scans, when you define multiple files per filegroup

Author: Rod Merritt

Download Script:
file_groups_alters.sql



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