Designing Files and Filegroups

You can add data files and filegroups to a database to improve database performance and enhance your backup and restore strategies.

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Using Files and Filegroups

Provides recommendations and guidelines for designing multiple files and filegroups.

Using Files and Filegroups to Manage Database Growth

Provides recommendations for file and filegroups size.

Read-Only Filegroups and Compression

Describes read-only filegroups and how to put read-only filegroups on disks using NTFS compression.

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