FILEGROUP_ID (Transact-SQL)

Returns the filegroup identification (ID) number for a specified filegroup name.

Syntax

FILEGROUP_ID ( 'filegroup_name' )

'filegroup_name'
Is an expression of type sysname that represents the filegroup name for which to return the filegroup ID.

int

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

The following example returns the filegroup ID for the filegroup named PRIMARY.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT FILEGROUP_ID('PRIMARY') AS [Filegroup ID];
GO

Here is the result set.

Filegroup ID

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1

(1 row(s) affected)