One more easy one.

What's the use of Filegroup backup?
Let's say we have around 60 tables. 30 in one filegroup
rest are in another filegroup.
What's the application of backing up only filegroup
instead of whole databse.
Because in any situation if we have to restore WHOLE
database. We can't just restore just 30 tables (in 1
filegroup) we have to restore the WHOLE database.
How would the integrity of databse is mainained if we
restore from filegroup datbase of filegroup1 taken at 2 pm
and restore from filgroup datbaase of filegroup2 taken at
3 pm.The main advantage of filegroup backup is for very large databases. You can
back up only the required parts. Together with log backups you can the
restore the filegroup backup and reapply the logs to bring everything back
to a consistent point.
So very useful if the size gets really big. In most circumstances full
backups and appropriate log backups are probably fine.
Mike John
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> What's the use of Filegroup backup?
> Let's say we have around 60 tables. 30 in one filegroup
> rest are in another filegroup.
> What's the application of backing up only filegroup
> instead of whole databse.
> Because in any situation if we have to restore WHOLE
> database. We can't just restore just 30 tables (in 1
> filegroup) we have to restore the WHOLE database.
> How would the integrity of databse is mainained if we
> restore from filegroup datbase of filegroup1 taken at 2 pm
> and restore from filgroup datbaase of filegroup2 taken at
> 3 pm.
>