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mushy
Starting Member

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Posted - 2010-02-17 : 16:35:41

Hi gurus,

Can we pull database history from SQL Server, like if i want to see database size growth for last year month by month.
??

It will be nice if we can get size of data rather than size of file from backupset. As i have requirement to maintain 5% of free space in datafiles every time.

Thanks

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-02-17 : 18:04:37

You have to record it; SQL Server doesn't track this information for you.

Here's what I use and wrote: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/archive/2008/12/16/How-to-track-database-growth-across-multiple-SQL-Server-instances.aspx

My tool was also featured in SQL Server Magazine: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/archive/2009/10/08/SQL-Server-Magazine-web-article-about-a-tool-I-wrote.aspx

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http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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