FILEGROUPPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance

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

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 AdventureWorks2022 database.

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

Here's the result set.

Default Filegroup   
---------------------   
1  
  
(1 row(s) affected)  

See Also

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