Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/30/07 07:34

B D Jensen (bjorn.d.jensen@gmail.com) writes:
> Thanks for the details about requirements.
> But I'm afraid I then must create the newtbl first,
> because the old table is in the Primary filegroup.
>
> And as I see there is no way for saying:
> select id, func1(col1) into newtbl MYNEWFG from oldtbl.
>
> So I think I have look at unload/load now....

But doesn't ALTER DATABASE permit you to specify a different filegroup as
the default filegroup? You could do that, and then your SELECT INTO tables
should end up there. At least that is what I would expect.


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