sys.sysfiles (Transact-SQL)
Contains one row for each file in a database.
Important
This SQL Server 2000 system table is included as a view for backward compatibility. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. To find the equivalent system view or views, see Mapping SQL Server 2000 System Tables to SQL Server 2005 System Views. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
Column name
Data type
Description
fileid
smallint
File identification number unique for each database.
groupid
smallint
File group identification number.
size
int
Size of the file, in 8-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.
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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. Can be either the number of pages or the percentage of file size, depending on value of status.
0 = No growth.
status
int
Status bits for the growth value in either megabytes (MB) or kilobytes (KB).
0x2 = Disk file.
0x40 = Log file.
0x100000 = Growth. This value is a percentage and not the number of pages.
perf
int
Reserved.
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
Reference
Mapping SQL Server 2000 System Tables to SQL Server 2005 System Views
Compatibility Views (Transact-SQL)