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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
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Secondary Data Files

A database can have any number of secondary files (in reality, the maximum number of files per database is 32,767, but that should be sufficient for most implementations). You can put a secondary file in the default filegroup or in another filegroup defined for the database. Secondary data files have the file extension ".ndf" by default.

Following are some situations in which the use of secondary database files might be beneficial:

Image You want to perform a partial backup. A backup can be performed for the entire database or a subset of the database. The subset is specified as a set of files or filegroups. The partial backup feature ...

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