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Well, it can’t be done. You cannot move a table to a particular file in database.

What you can do is move the table to a particular file group. A FILEGROUP contains one or more data files. If the FILEGROUP contains more than one data file, SQL Server uses a proportional fill algorithm to make use of all data files in the FILEGROUP. On the other hand, if the FILEGROUP contains a single data file, then you can say that you have moved the table to a particular file without any doubts.

To move a table to a particular file file group, you need to re-create the clustered index on the table. Recreating an index effectively moves the table to the new FILEGROUP. The example below demonstrates the same.

Let’s create a test database to work with:

USE   [master]

GO

CREATEDATABASE [TestDB]