Comments on: Auto Grow is the bane of my existence http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/autogrow-is-the-bane-of-my-existence/ Tue, 07 May 2013 13:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jrmep http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/autogrow-is-the-bane-of-my-existence/#comment-254 Jrmep Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:01:43 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/autogrow-is-the-bane-of-my-existence/#comment-254 Hi Mr. Denny,

I would like to say, I’m with you, but need to know the history grow for your database, I couldn’t say to my customer disable auto grow and not have the history of. I put auto grow if I don’t have the history, but I put a job to monitoring the next extend of my database each 15-30minutes to validate if I have space to do this extend.

Manuel Pineda
SQL DBA – MCTS

]]> By: Michaelm2100 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/autogrow-is-the-bane-of-my-existence/#comment-248 Michaelm2100 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:31:55 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/autogrow-is-the-bane-of-my-existence/#comment-248 Thank you for sharing your experience with the Auto Grow feature, Denny. In lieu of proper storage capacity planning, invoking the Auto Grow feature definitely provides a lazy-dog approach of “let SQL Server manage disk space allocation,” with the associated results you experienced. The concept is commendable, and if a future version the Auto Grow feature included an integrated disk-allocation optimization mechanism, then it could possibly reduce or eliminate the undesirable results you encountered. For now, I’ll definitely heed your recommendations.

Thank you for your insight.

Michael J Meichtry/Torrance, CA.

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