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tracy5436
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Posted - 2010-05-14 : 18:40:51
Hi,

My database size has grown considerably in the last few months - from 6 gb to 11 gb. Every day it seems to grow 200 mb, and there is no great volume of data being input. Maintenance procedures have been run on the database, such as database consistency check commands, update statistics, and recompile stored procedures. The recovery model is set to simple.

What could be causing this ?

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-05-14 : 18:46:39
Have you checked fragmentation levels as I didn't see you mention rebuilding the indexes? What portion of the database is growing? Have you figured out what table it is by checking row counts, table size, and index size?

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Kristen
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22859 Posts

Posted - 2010-05-15 : 04:34:58
There is a script here:

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=61762

which will tell the the size (and slack space) of each table.

Suggest you run that daily for a few days and see which tables are changing. There might be a table that ought to be being purged [of "stale" data] but isn't
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