How do I delete Filestream?
Disable the use of Filestream.
- Delete all FILESTREAM columns from all tables. ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN.
- Disassociate tables from the FILESTREAM filegroups. ALTER TABLE SET (FILESTREAM_ON = ‘NULL’
- Remove all FILESTREAM data containers.
- Remove all FILESTREAM filegroups.
- Disable FILESTREAM.
- Restart the SQL Service.
What happens when you remove FILESTREAM from a database?
After the above is done, the FILESTREAM feature has been removed from the database and you can backup the database and restore to a server that does not have FILESTREAM enabled. If the requestor is not going to use the data in FILESTREAM table in the target system then you can drop the table entirely and follow the same steps we discussed above.
How to check if alter database dbname remove filegroup succeeds?
You can verify whether the FILESTREAM data is cleaned up by going to the Filestream data container. If the FILESTREAM data is deleted an ALTER DATABASE dbname REMOVE FILE will usually succeed. Once it is done, you can issue ALTER DATABASE dbname REMOVE FILEGROUP.
How to add FILESTREAM to a SQL Server database?
Enables FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL and Win32 streaming access. Let’s go through the process of creating a database containing FILESTREAM filegroup and File. First create the database, this does not require any special syntax. Next add a new filegroup to the database with the clause FILESTREAM in the code. Then allocate a file to this filegroup.
Why is myfs _ DB database not using FILESTREAM?
If we try to restore the database on a server that does not have FILESTREAM enabled using the SSMS GUI, we get this error message “FILESTREAM feature is disabled”. To solve this problem, we will restore the MyFS_Db database backup on a server where FILESTREAM is enabled and then remove the FILESTREAM features from the database.