FILEGROUPPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)

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This function returns the filegroup property value for a specified name and filegroup value.

Topic link icon Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

FILEGROUPPROPERTY ( filegroup_name, property )

Arguments

filegroup_name
An expression of type sysname that represents the filegroup name for which FILEGROUPPROPERTY returns the named property information.

property
An expression of type varchar(128) that returns the name of the filegroup property. Property can return one of these values:

Value	Description	Value returned
IsReadOnly	Filegroup is read-only.	1 = TRUE 0 = FALSE NULL = Invalid input.
IsUserDefinedFG	Filegroup is a user-defined filegroup.	1 = TRUE 0 = FALSE NULL = Invalid input.
IsDefault	Filegroup is the default filegroup.	1 = TRUE 0 = FALSE NULL = Invalid input.

Return Types

int

Remarks

filegroup_name corresponds to the name column from the sys.filegroups catalog view.

Examples

This example returns the IsDefault property setting for the primary filegroup in the AdventureWorks2012 database.

SELECT FILEGROUPPROPERTY('PRIMARY', 'IsDefault') AS 'Default Filegroup';  
GO

Here is the result set.