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Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:45 AM
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So in effect then data and log files are not growing because they have so much free space and the 3% growht is not revelant at the time.
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Tim Jacobs-356724 (1/10/2012)
So in effect then data and log files are not growing because they have so much free space and the 3% growht is not revelant at the time.
Yes.
Why do you want them to grow so bad??
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Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:03 AM
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Ninja, I don't want them to grow bad just trying to understand if the 3% is even revelant at this time given the free space. Some literature suggest never using autogrowth but monitor and adjust accordingly. I do appreciate the guidance from you and John.
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Tim Jacobs-356724 (1/10/2012)
Ninja, I don't want them to grow bad just trying to understand if the 3% is even revelant at this time given the free space. Some literature suggest never using autogrowth but monitor and adjust accordingly. I do appreciate the guidance from you and John.
Never RELY on autogrow. It's an insurrance against unforseen data spikes or other problems.
You should set it to 500 to 2000 mb and move on to your next task. That way the db(s) won't break (running out of space does that, no more transactions can happen, but read is ok).
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Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:21 AM
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Thanks Ninja. So as you and John suggested the final settings on SQL 2000
autogrowth=Yes
In Megabytes 500-2000
Unrestricted file growth = Yes
monitor using sp_spaceused or via scipt and keep doing what we're doing with the backups.
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Yes.
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Unrestricted file growth will depend on whether your database shares the disk with other databases that may also want to grow. If it does, then it's wise to set a maximum growth for each file on the disk in case one of them suddenly grows and tries to consume the whole disk.
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Thanks John that's an interesting point. The disk is shared with a read only copy of our production db(the one we've been discussing) that gets restored every early morning from the current backup. The disk is 350G with 73G used.
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