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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
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File Management

In SQL Server 2012, you can specify that a database file should grow automatically as space is needed. SQL Server can also shrink the size of the database if the space is not needed. You can control whether to use this feature along with the increment by which the file is to be expanded. The increment can be specified as a fixed number of megabytes or as a percentage of the current size of the file. You can also set a limit on the maximum size of the file or allow it to grow until no more space is available on the disk.

Listing 30.1 provides an example of a database being created with a 10MB growth increment for the first database file, 20MB for the second, and 20% growth increment for the log file.

LISTING 30.1 Creating a Database ...

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