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Capacity and growth considerations - SQL Server Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Installation and Administration
Capacity and growth considerations
- [Instructor] Considerations for how large your data files are, and how large they can grow, are things you need to understand, not only when installing SQL but more importantly, when you are creating databases on the installed instance. SQL Server allows you to set the initial size during the creation of the database, or you can accept the defaults, in this case which is eight megabytes. This size determines how much data you can actually store in the database. We can also expand the size of the data files to increase the storage space, or shrink them later to decrease the storage space. But proper planning ahead of time really is crucial to supporting your database performance. Keep in mind that by default, data files will grow as required until the disc is full. Note that the max size in this particular instance is set to unlimited. You can choose different database growth options, such as manually expanding the database with a transact-SQL statement later, or setting the…
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Introduce installation options2m 26s
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Installation options continued4m 32s
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Database storage strategies2m 53s
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Capacity and growth considerations2m 43s
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Understanding service accounts3m 38s
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Install SQL Server7m 32s
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