schedule database growth for midnight.

Hi Everybody
My MSSQL 2000 8.00.818 database stores large amounts of binary data
and can be gigabytes in size. When the databases automatically grow,
they can take a while. This causes web pages which are waiting for
results from queries, to fail. Growth has been set to 1% to decrease
grow time. But I want to know if it is possible to set a schedule to
run at night, to make sure there is at least 10% free space. Can this
be done?
Why don't you just increase the database size by a LOT once, anticipating
long-term growth, instead of trying to predict reactionary growth?
"geist3" <jcockrell@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everybody
> My MSSQL 2000 8.00.818 database stores large amounts of binary data
> and can be gigabytes in size. When the databases automatically grow,
> they can take a while. This causes web pages which are waiting for
> results from queries, to fail. Growth has been set to 1% to decrease
> grow time. But I want to know if it is possible to set a schedule to
> run at night, to make sure there is at least 10% free space. Can this
> be done?
>
|||I agree 100% with Aaron in that you should make it as large as you think it
needs to be for quite some time. In any case you can schedule growth by
using a standard SQL Agent job and ALTER DATABASE command. And don't set the
auto growth to a %. Use a fixed amount in MB or GB that you know can grow in
well under the timeout period. A percentage is useless as the size gets
larger each time the db grows and you no longer have control in how long
each one takes.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"geist3" <jcockrell@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everybody
> My MSSQL 2000 8.00.818 database stores large amounts of binary data
> and can be gigabytes in size. When the databases automatically grow,
> they can take a while. This causes web pages which are waiting for
> results from queries, to fail. Growth has been set to 1% to decrease
> grow time. But I want to know if it is possible to set a schedule to
> run at night, to make sure there is at least 10% free space. Can this
> be done?
>
|||Put me down for third on the "be proactive" side. Just make the darn
database HUGE once. This will also avoid disk file fragmentation and lead
to better performance in the long run, as well as providing free space so
that index maintenance can lay data back down in sequential order - again
improving performance.
TheSQLGuru
President
Indicium Resources, Inc.
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>I agree 100% with Aaron in that you should make it as large as you think it
>needs to be for quite some time. In any case you can schedule growth by
>using a standard SQL Agent job and ALTER DATABASE command. And don't set
>the auto growth to a %. Use a fixed amount in MB or GB that you know can
>grow in well under the timeout period. A percentage is useless as the size
>gets larger each time the db grows and you no longer have control in how
>long each one takes.
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
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