Database Maintenance

I have a maintenance plan set up to:
Remove unused space from database files
Shrink database when it grows beyond: 50 MB
Amount of free space to remain after shrink = 10%
Does this effect log files or just data files, or both?
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both.
Many DBA's would not recommend shrinking the Database unless you
specifically are running into storage space issues.
My personal recommendation is that you disable this feature.
Greg Jackson
PDX, Oregon
|||The maintenance plan will do a dbcc shrinkdatabase, not a
dbcc shrinkfile. As Greg posted, you really don't need this
in a regular maintenance plan. It's better to just size your
files appropriately and let them have the space they may
need for your normal operations. If they grow and you shrink
them and then they grow again right after you shrink them,
you just waste resources. Also, I think the maintenance plan
defaults to where you do a dbreindex and then a
shrinkdatabase. In that scenario, you likely just
reintroduce the fragmentation you cleaned up with the
dbreindex.
The following article on Tibor Karaszi's site had some
additional information on shrinking:
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/info_dont_shrink.asp
-Sue
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:21:42 GMT, "Robert Richards via
SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote:

>I have a maintenance plan set up to:
>Remove unused space from database files
> Shrink database when it grows beyond: 50 MB
> Amount of free space to remain after shrink = 10%
>Does this effect log files or just data files, or both?
|||I have applied "autoshrink" to many of my databases specifically=
to try and keep the size of the logs down, and it seems to help.=
I had much trouble with logs growinbg larger than the database,=
but this has improved with autoshrink and nightly log backups.

> I have a maintenance plan set up to:
> Remove unused space from database files
> Shrink database when it grows beyond: 50 MB
> Amount of free space to remain after shrink =3D 10%
> Does this effect log files or just data files, or both?
> --
> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
User submitted from AEWNET (http://www.aewnet.com/)
|||http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
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I have applied "autoshrink" to many of my databases specifically to try and keep the size of the
logs down, and it seems to help. I had much trouble with logs growinbg larger than the database, but
this has improved with autoshrink and nightly log backups.

> I have a maintenance plan set up to:
> Remove unused space from database files
> Shrink database when it grows beyond: 50 MB
> Amount of free space to remain after shrink = 10%
> Does this effect log files or just data files, or both?
> --
> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
User submitted from AEWNET (http://www.aewnet.com/)