Depends really....
If Instant File Initialisation is turned off then yes, auto growth on a large DB can affect performance temporarily.
Say you have a DB of 200GB size, when auto growth kicks in, imagine how long it's going to take SQL Server to zero out 20GB worth of disk space? A couple of minutes at least....
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It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
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Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
Howard Zinn