December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
One of the reasons why a database should be distributed into more files or filegroups is better manageability. As the database's size grows from time to time, the backup size also increases even if backup compression is used. For this case, SQL Server provides a very useful feature called file backup or filegroup backup. All the following examples will be shown for filegroup backups because file backups are almost the same but use the FILE keyword instead of the FILEGROUP keyword. The syntax of file/filegroup backup uses the logical file names or filegroup names respectively in the header of the backup. Let's see an example database called BiggerSystem with these filegroups:
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