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Change the growth method from pecentage, which is defaulted at 10%, to a fixed value, say 512MB. In the Management Studio, expand database node &gt;&nbsp;right click on the database &gt;&nbsp;Properties &gt;&nbsp;Choose Files in the left panel Files and change the Autogrouwth. 10% from 125GB is 12GB and that is a lot!<br />
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Change the growth method from pecentage, which is defaulted at 10%, to a fixed value, say 512MB. In the Management Studio, expand database node > right click on the database > Properties > Choose Files in the left panel Files and change the Autogrouwth. 10% from 125GB is 12GB and that is a lot!
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I received a notification on a disk drive hosting a SQL Server 2008 Standard/Windows 2008 R2 Standard - .mdf file. &nbsp;The notification states that the server is running out of disk space. &nbsp;12 hours ago, the available disk space was at 125 GB available. &nbsp;Now there is only less than 50GB available and that .mdf file keeps growing. &nbsp;is there any maintenance that can be run on the database side, rather than expanding the volume, and have the issue recur again?
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I received a notification on a disk drive hosting a SQL Server 2008 Standard/Windows 2008 R2 Standard - .mdf file.  The notification states that the server is running out of disk space.  12 hours ago, the available disk space was at 125 GB available.  Now there is only less than 50GB available and that .mdf file keeps growing.  is there any maintenance that can be run on the database side, rather than expanding the volume, and have the issue recur again?

SQL Server Database Primary Data File - Growing Exponentially

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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