Posted by B D Jensen on 04/30/07 08:22

On 30 Apr., 09:34, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> B D Jensen (bjorn.d.jen...@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.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
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very, very good point!
/Bjorn

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