Monday, 26 September 2016

How to find the data file location of the Database ?

While creating the database the two types of data files such as MDF & LDF will be created in the drive.

If we want to see the data file location of the particular database we can find the location via T-SQL query.

SYNTAX

SP_HELPFILE

EXAMPLE

I just executed the below query to find the location of the adventure works database in my instance.


The above command will return the name of the data files , location and its filegroup etc as shown above.

You can easily identify the location using the above command in your instance.

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