Copy Tables and FileGroups from old database to new database

Question

Using SSMS in SQL Server 2017, I need to copy a set of tables from a legacy database into a new database on the same server (my localhost). The catch is that in the legacy database, when I script out the creation of some tables, they are created on a filegroup:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Foobar](
    [FoobarId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [OtherColumn] [varchar](100) NOT NULL) ON [AdvantagePrimary]

And when I run the script, of course, I get:

Invalid filegroup 'AdvantagePrimary' specified.

There are ~100+ tables and 14 filegroups I am scripting over to the new database (I need all the schema plus the table constraints, indexes, triggers, etc).

So my question is... Is it possible to copy over (with a script or otherwise) both the Tables and the FileGroups? The accepted answer here ( Is it possible to copy a filegroup from one database to another? ) seems to say "Nope. You are SOL." I hope he's wrong.

I knew it was a long shot, but I tried this:

INSERT INTO  NewDatabase.sys.filegroups
SELECT * FROM LegacyDatabase.sys.filegroups

And got:

Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not allowed

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

I ended up just creating the filegroups manually in the target database. There were only 14 of them, so it wasn't too bad. Found instructions on how to do this here:

https://codingsight.com/moving-existing-table-from-primary-filegroup-to-different-filegroup/