Nice looking script. Looking at this post from 7 years ago makes me realize I have come a long way! This was an issue with sql server 2000 if I remember correctly that the auto-growth settings were not accepted until the instance was restarted (on the instance level or the server level) and that was fixed with a service pack update that was installed later on anyways. Thankfully we are on pretty much a 2008R2 environment with one or two stragglers of 2005 and we are long past some of these woes. Thanks for the reply!