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ALTER DATABASE database

ADD FILE <filespec> [,…n] [TO FILEGROUP
filegroup_name]
ADD LOG FILE <filespec> [,…n]
REMOVE FILE logical_file_name
ADD FILEGROUP filegroup_name
After a database is created, there may
still come a time when you want to
REMOVE FILEGROUP filegroup_name
make changes to the way the files are MODIFY FILE <filespec>
arranged. MODIFY FILEGROUP filegroup_name
filegroup_property
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<FileSpec> refers to the Logical_File_name refers to the

parameters of the file like Name, Name parameter without the file
FileName, Size, Maxsize, and extension.
FileGrowth.

It is vital to note that we may only apply one change per ALTER statement.

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ALTER DATABASE Student2

ADD FILEGROUP Secondary

ALTER DATABASE Student2

ADD FILE
(NAME=Newdat1,
First, we will add a secondary datafile
to the Student2 database. This will
FILENAME = ‘C:\Newdat.ndf’,
need to happen with two ALTER SIZE = 10,
statements. MAXSIZE = 100,
FILEGROWTH = 5)
TO FILEGROUP Secondary
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ALTER DATABASE Student2

MODIFY FILE
(NAME=Newdat1,
FILENAME = ‘C:\Newdat1.ndf’,
Now we will change a parameter FILEGROWTH = 15)
value in the Student2 database. Let’s
TO FILEGROUP Secondary
say we needed to change the
FileGrowth to 15.
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ALTER DATABASE Student2

REMOVE FILE Newdat1

If we then decide to remove the ALTER DATABASE Student2

Secondary Filegroup, we will again
We only have to
REMOVE FILEGROUP Secondary
have to make use of two ALTER specify the Logical
statements.
name of the data file
and not the full file
path.
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DROP DATABASE ClassDB

You always need to be careful with

these types of operations.
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Complete the questions in the Physical

Implementation Exercise 1 file.

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