autogrow

SQL Server 2016: new database-scoped configuration parameters

Do you remember new capabilities shipped with SQL Server 2016 CTP2 about tempdb? In this blog post, I talked about well-known trace flags 1117 and 1118 that become useless for tempdb because their related effects are(…)

Don’t use the default database file autogrow settings !

I often noticed default values for database file autogrow settings during my audits. You don’t trust me? Let me talk about a funny story about an incredible (and extreme) situation that concerns a transaction log file and its default settings.