FILEGROUP_NAME (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance

This function returns the filegroup name for the specified filegroup identification (ID) number.

Transact-SQL syntax conventions

FILEGROUP_NAME ( filegroup_id )   

filegroup_id

The filegroup ID number whose filegroup name FILEGROUP_NAME will return. filegroup_id has a smallint data type.

nvarchar(128)

filegroup_id corresponds to the data_space_id column of the sys.filegroups catalog view.

This example returns the filegroup name for filegroup ID 1 in the AdventureWorks2022 database.

SELECT FILEGROUP_NAME(1) AS [Filegroup Name];  
GO  

Here's the result set.

Filegroup Name   
-----------------------  
PRIMARY  
  
(1 row(s) affected)  

Metadata Functions (Transact-SQL)
SELECT (Transact-SQL)
sys.filegroups (Transact-SQL)