Backup & Recovery from First Principles, Part 6: Piecemeal Restores – Online Before It’s All Back
A 4 TB database is down. The application needs the 200 GB of hot transactional data; the 3.8 TB of archived history can wait until tomorrow. A standard restore makes everyone wait for all 4…
Removing a filegroup that contains data.
Occasionally, you may find you have an extra filegroup that is no longer required for whatever reason. In order to remove that filegroup, you must move all data from that filegroup to a new filegroup….
Can statistics be updated for objects in read-only filegroups?
DBA.StackExchange.com has an interesting question about the benefits of filegroups and setting filegroups to read-only which I recently answered. I made several assumptions about read-only filegroups that turned out to be incorrect, one of which…