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Creating data files

Available with Production Mapping license.

Standard GIS storage recommendations favor keeping index and log files separate from vector and tabular business tables. For performance reasons, it is better to position the business, feature, and spatial index tables separately and position FileGroup data files based on their usage patterns. For a multiversioned, highly active editing geodatabase, database files of the VERSIONS FileGroup may be separated and dispersed across available disks to avoid input/output contention.

The following table has the recommended FileGroups to be created for storing the features and tables.

FILEGROUPCONFIGURATION KEYWORD_PARAMETER

PRODLIB_BDATA

Business table

PRODLIB_BINDEX

Business table index

PRODLIB_SDATA

Spatial Index table

PRODLIB_SINDEX

Spatial Index table index

PRODLIB_ADATA

Adds table (versioned)

PRODLIB_AINDEX

Adds table index

PRODLIB_DDATA

Deletes table (versioned)

PRODLIB_DINDEX

Deletes table index

PRODLIB_XMLDOC

XML documents

PRODLIB_XMLIDX

XML documents indexes

PRODLIB_SDEDICT

Data dictionary

PRODLIB_SDEDICTINDEX

Data dictionary index

FileGroups

The following script can be run in SQL Management Studio to add FileGroups.

USE MASTER
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_BDATA] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Bdata01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Bdata01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_BDATA]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_BINDEX]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Bindex01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Bindex01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_BINDEX]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_SDATA] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Sdata01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Sdata01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_SDATA]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_SINDEX] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Sindex01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Sindex01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_SINDEX]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_ADATA] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Adata01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Adata01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_ADATA]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_AINDEX] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Aindex01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Aindex01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_AINDEX]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_DDATA] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Ddata01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Ddata01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_DDATA]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_DINDEX] 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] ADD FILE (NAME = N'prodlib_Dindex01', FILENAME = N'C:\mssql\data\prodlibdb\prodlib_Dindex01.NDF' , SIZE = 1, MAXSIZE = 800, FILEGROWTH = 1) TO FILEGROUP [PRODLIB_DINDEX]
GO

By setting the data files’ initial size to 1 MB, there is no delay in the creation of the FileGroups. You can then resize the data files to avoid fragmentation.

ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Bdata01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Bindex01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Sdata01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Sindex01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Adata01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Aindex01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Ddata01', SIZE = 400MB )
ALTER DATABASE [PRODLIBDB] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'prodlib_Dindex01', SIZE = 400MB )

Use the following to verify FileGroups and data files:

EXEC sp_helpdb prodlibdb
GO