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Chapter 11: FileTableFileTableRootPathFileTableRootPath() returns the UNC path of the root directory of the currentdatabase and, with the use of the optional argument, appends the root directory of thespecified FileTable. On a default server instance and assuming all default share anddirectory names, a call to FileTableRootPath() in the NorthPole database will yieldthis result:\\SERVERNAME\MSSQLSERVER\NorthPoleA call to FileTableRootPath('Documents') will yield this result:\\SERVERNAME\MSSQLSERVER\NorthPole\DocumentsGetFileNamespacePathThis intrinsic function returns the UNC path of the file or folder referenced by thefile_stream column. This function has two optional arguments.The first argument determines if the computer name and share name are also included.If the argument is 0 (default), only the relative path starting with the database-leveldirectory is returned. If the argument is 1, the full UNC path is returned.The second argument determines if the computer name is converted. The default valueof 0 converts the computer name to NetBIOS format, a value of 1 does not convert thecomputer name, and a value of 2 returns the fully qualified domain name of the server.(This argument and its values are identical to that found in the PathName() intrinsicfunction.)Listing 11-27 shows the use of the GetFileNamespacePath() function with the defaultargument values and with non-default argument values.424