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maximus_vj
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2006-09-22 : 12:39:08
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| Hello,On my Production DB Servers, I have a database that says Available FIle Space as 0 MB. (When I go to Enterprise Manager and Right Click on Database and go to properties)That database is set to Auto Grow by 20% with Unrestricted File Growth.But the Database doesn't seem to grow, the available file space always says 0MB.Data File size is 3 GB and I have 140 GB of free space.How do I fix it?Is it a good idea to manually increase the file size?How long this can take?Thanksmaximus |
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snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2006-09-22 : 12:54:49
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| Database space is allocated in pages and new data can be written into existing pages. So when the available space is 0 it simply means that there are no more unallocated pages in the database files, but there may still be plenty of space in the allocated pages.When a new page needs to be allocated the file/s will grow.You can see the numbers that EM uses by executing the sp_spaceused stored procedure, take a look at it in Books Online for more info. |
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