The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 2: Getting Started with FILESTREAMLet's create a partitioned table and see this in action. First, we'll drop the table we createdearlier by running the script shown in Listing 2-24.IF OBJECT_ID('Items', 'U') IS NOT NULLBEGINDROP TABLE ItemsENDGOListing 2-24:Dropping the Items table.When you drop a table with FILESTREAM columns, the FILESTREAM data containerfor that table is removed from the FILESTREAM data container. Note, however, thatthis is done by a garbage collector and you might experience some delay in getting thefile removed.If we now go to the FILESTREAM data container and take a look at the content of thefolder, the FILESTREAM folders have been removed and the folder is empty except for themetadata objects (Figure 2-7).Figure 2-7:Verifying that the FILESTREAM data container contains only metadata.81