Comments on: Database Filegroups: Just Like Seatbelts But With Less Chafing

By: SSIS Junkie : Considerations when starting a new SSDT database project

SSIS Junkie : Considerations when starting a new SSDT database project — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:58:08 +0000

[…] you don’t understand the importance of filegroups then read Thomas Larock’s recent blog post DATABASE FILEGROUPS: JUST LIKE SEATBELTS BUT WITH LESS CHAFING. Quite often your organisation will stipulate policies for what filegroups you should be using and […]

By: Ali Razeghi

Ali Razeghi — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:41:00 +0000

In reply to ThomasLaRock.

Do you gentlemen think it would be a better solution to put the DB boot page, page 9, etc. on some newly named protected SYSTEM filegroup by default and keep ‘primary’ the same name?

This way code doesn’t have to change and the impact to most end users will be seamless. This is a great idea though, much better than checking it in Policy Manager across thousands of DBs.

By: Using Multiple Filegroups | Sayvaz's Blog

Using Multiple Filegroups | Sayvaz's Blog — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:02:06 +0000

[…] for further reading, see; http://thomaslarock.com/2013/01/database-filegroups-just-like-seatbelts-but-with-less-chafing/ […]

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:53:00 +0000

In reply to Jefferson Elias.

Jefferson,

Sure! There are a lot of reasons as to why you might want to do this. It can help with recovery as well as performance. I think a better question to answer may be “why wouldn’t I want this”. It could be the case that the performance and recovery gains aren’t worth the administrative overhead. It really depends on your shop and your needs.

By: Jefferson Elias

Jefferson Elias — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:34:00 +0000

Hi! Thanks for this article. I have a little question : is there a reason for a DBA (for a non-system DB) to create one (or more) secondary filegroups and let user only fill those filegroups, letting the PRIMARY always for system data ?

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000

In reply to Paul Smith. I didn't think about overriding a template, but that would only help myself. I'd really like a solution that would help all end users, and that solution would need to come from the makers of SSMS.

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:56:00 +0000

I use Red Gate SQLPrompt and that allows you to set up so that the intellisense translates the create table command into a template as per your example. I think (need to check to make sure) that you can override the templates within SSMS anyway.