Creating a filegroup
This recipe describes how to create a filegroup programmatically using PowerShell and SMO.
Getting ready
We will add a filegroup called FGActive
to your TestDB
database. In this recipe, this is the T-SQL equivalent of what we are trying to accomplish:
ALTER DATABASE [TestDB] ADD FILEGROUP [FGActive] GO
How to do it...
These are the steps to add a filegroup to your database:
- Open PowerShell ISE as administrator.
- Import the SQLPS module and create a new SMO Server object:
#import SQL Server module Import-Module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking #replace this with your instance name $instanceName = "localhost" $server = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server -ArgumentList $instanceName
Add the following script and run: ...
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