Answer by Nick Winstanley for Sql Server - Best Practices for Growing...
Auto growth is something that you should try to avoid if possible. The issue is you have no control over when the growth can happen and your system can take a serious hit while it does so. Set your...
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You should be aiming to auto-grow as little as possible. Seven times a day is excruciating, even with instant file initialization.Don't do a Shrink Database. Ever. Shrinkfile, maybe, but only after an...
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I have been monitoring file growth via the data collector in sql server 2008 r2 for two weeks. The database is growing consistently at around 35(MB)/Day. The DB has not yet hit the initial size of 2...
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