RLilj33 (6/6/2014)
I believe the process is: Entire database goes offline, Primary filegroup is restored, Primary filegroup comes back online, Subsequent filegroups can be brought online one at a time.I have not performed a piecemeal restore, so those more familiar - please make the necessary annotations!;-)
That is correct.
And concerning an earlier question: piecemeal restore is (a) only available if you use multiple filegroups, and (b) for databases in simple recovery the additional requirement is that at least some of those filegroups are readonly (and only those filegroups can benefit from the piecemeal restore process).
So a simple recovery database with only read-write filegroups cannot benefir from this feature.