I don't understand about the purpose of using Filegroup in SQL server? What benefit can it provide?
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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/544898/sql-server-2005-2008-multiple-filegroups – bhamby Nov 13 '12 at 16:13
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If you're using Enterprise Edition, you can do a piecemeal restore. That is, you can place critical and not-so-critical tables on different filegroups and, in the case of disaster, recover them at different times. This requires a lot of forethought, but is handy.

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