What does ON [PRIMARY] mean?

Question

I\'m creating an SQL setup script and I\'m using someone else\'s script as an example. Here\'s an example of the script:

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDE         


        

Answer 1

It refers to which filegroup the object you are creating resides on. So your Primary filegroup could reside on drive D:\ of your server. you could then create another filegroup called Indexes. This filegroup could reside on drive E:\ of your server.