Creating a filegroup

This recipe describes how to create a filegroup programmatically using PowerShell and SMO.

Getting ready

We will add a filegroup called FGActive to your TestDB database. In this recipe, this is the T-SQL equivalent of what we are trying to accomplish:

ALTER DATABASE [TestDB]
ADD FILEGROUP [FGActive]
GO

How to do it...

These are the steps to add a filegroup to your database:

1. Open PowerShell ISE as administrator.

2. Import the SQLPS module and create a new SMO Server object:

   #import SQL Server module
   Import-Module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking
   
   #replace this with your instance name
   $instanceName = "localhost"
   $server = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server -ArgumentList $instanceName

   Add the following script and run:

   $databasename = "TestDB"
   $database = $server.Databases[$databasename]
   $fgname = "FGActive"
   
   #For purposes of this recipe, we are going to drop this
   #filegroup if it exists, so we can recreate it without
   #any issues
   if ($database.FileGroups[$fgname...