FILEGROUP_NAME (Transact-SQL)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

This function returns the filegroup name for the specified filegroup identification (ID) number.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

FILEGROUP_NAME ( filegroup_id )   

Arguments

filegroup_id

The filegroup ID number whose filegroup name FILEGROUP_NAME will return. filegroup_id has a smallint data type.

Return Types

nvarchar(128)

Remarks

filegroup_id corresponds to the data_space_id column of the sys.filegroups catalog view.

Examples

This example returns the filegroup name for filegroup ID 1 in the AdventureWorks2012 database.

SELECT FILEGROUP_NAME(1) AS [Filegroup Name];  
GO  

Here is the result set.

Filegroup Name   
-----------------------  
PRIMARY  
  
(1 row(s) affected)  

See Also

Metadata Functions (Transact-SQL)
SELECT (Transact-SQL)
sys.filegroups (Transact-SQL)