Contains one row for each disk backup file, tape backup file, and database file. This table is stored only in the master database.
Important This system table is provided for backward compatibility only. In earlier versions of Microsoft® SQL Server™, this table contained a list of all database files. For SQL Server version 7.0, a list of database files is stored in the sysfiles system table of each database.
| Column name | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | sysname | Logical name of the backup file or database file. |
| size | int | Size of the file in 2 KB pages. |
| low | int | Maintained for backward compatibility only. |
| high | int | Maintained for backward compatibility only. |
| status | smallint | Bitmap indicating the type of device: 1 = Default disk 2 = Physical disk 4 = Logical disk 8 = Skip header 16 = Backup file 32 = Serial writes 4096 = Read-only |
| cntrltype | smallint | Controller type: 0 = Non-CD-ROM database file 2 = Disk backup file 3 - 4 = Diskette backup file 5 = Tape backup file 6 = Named-pipe file |
| phyname | nvarchar(260) | Name of the physical file. |