Unfortunately the Local Security Policy is nowhere to be found in Windows 7 Home Premium. I can only assume that by running as an admin account that the instant file...

The test box is a Windows 7 Home machine (insert chuckle here). I don't believe there's even the ability to set local security policy. Even if so, and instant file...

I would like to thank you for your help. I have messed around with these settings in a test database on a test server and was wondering if you could...

So the only difference between manually growing the file and letting autogrowth settings happen is that I can control it on my own timeframe (non-peak hours) to limit the performance...

Can you elaborate a bit on how you "manually" grow the database file? After the autogrow hits the Inital (MB) size of the database file reflects the growth. Does that...

Thank you for the reply.

We don't have a heavy load on the server, and there's plenty of free disk space, so I don't think an autogrow event once or twice...