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title sys.sysaltfiles (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs
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ms.date 03/15/2017
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sys.sysaltfiles (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2008-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-md]

Under special circumstances, contains rows corresponding to the files in a database.

Important

[!INCLUDEssnoteCompView]

Column name Data type Description
fileid smallint File identification number. This is unique for each database.
groupid smallint File group identification number.
size int File size, in 8-kilobyte (KB) pages.
maxsize int Maximum file size, in 8-KB pages.

0 = No growth.

-1 = File will grow until the disk is full.

268435456 = Log file will grow to a maximum size of 2 TB.

Note: Databases that are upgraded with an unlimited log file size will report -1 for the maximum size of the log file.
growth int Growth size of the database.

0 = No growth. Can be either the number of pages or the percentage of file size, depending on the value of status. If status is 0x100000, growth is the percentage of file size; otherwise, it is the number of pages.
status int [!INCLUDEssInternalOnly]
perf int Reserved.
dbid smallint Database identification number of the database to which this file belongs.
name sysname Logical name of the file.
filename nvarchar(260) Name of the physical device. This includes the full path of the file.

See Also

Mapping System Tables to System Views (Transact-SQL)
Compatibility Views (Transact-SQL)