The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 10: Integrating FILESTREAM with other SQL Server FeaturesReplicating databases with multiple FILESTREAMfilegroupsMost real-world FILESTREAM databases will have more than one FILESTREAMfilegroup, and it is important to understand how replication works with multipleFILESTREAM filegroups.By default, when you replicate a FILESTREAM database, all FILESTREAM data will goto the default FILESTREAM filegroup. However, we can configure the publication toreplicate FILESTREAM data to its own filegroup in the subscriber by setting another flagin the schema_option configuration value.In the previous section, we saw how to set or clear flags in the schema_optionconfiguration value. In a similar way, we can modify an article to replicateFILESTREAM data to the same filegroups in the subscriber by turning on thebit represented by 0x800000000.Note that the replication process does not create FILESTREAM filegroups on thesubscriber database. If you use this option, you must create the required FILESTREAMfilegroups on the target database before applying the initial snapshot.The option to set the FILESTREAM filegroup is available only through T-SQL. The SSMSproperty page does not have this option.367