The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 2: Getting Started with FILESTREAMListing 2-7 demonstrated how to create a FILESTREAM-enabled table called Itemsthat uses the default FILESTREAM filegroup. If you do not want to use the defaultFILESTREAM filegroup, you use the FILESTREAM_ON clause of the CREATE TABLEstatement to specify the filegroup, as shown in Listing 2-14.CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Items]([ItemID] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER ROWGUIDCOLNOT NULLUNIQUE ,[ItemNumber] VARCHAR(20) ,[ItemDescription] VARCHAR(50) ,[ItemImage] VARBINARY(MAX) FILESTREAMNULL) FILESTREAM_ON [NorthPole_fs]Listing 2-14:Creating a table with FILESTREAM columns using a specified filegroup.For an example that shows how to change the FILESTREAM filegroup associated with anexisting table, see the section Creating a database with multiple FILESTREAM filegroups,later in this chapter.FILESTREAM filegroup queriesThere are some system views that you can use to query FILESTREAM-related informationon your SQL Server 2008 database. We will see many of them in the coming chapters, buta couple of examples are included here.You might need to find out the FILESTREAM filegroup that is associated with a specifictable. You can do this by querying the catalog view sys.data_spaces as shown inListing 2-15.69