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AlexanderSupertramp
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Posted - 2010-08-30 : 15:53:58
I have my production server's data increasing very rapidly these days. The mdf files are almost increasing 50GB a week from last 2 weeks. Before that it was like 5GB a week or even less.

How can I keep track of these databases?. How can I know which database is being used mostly? and which table is being populated recently with lots of data?

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-08-30 : 15:56:55
Here's what I use to track database growth: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/archive/2008/12/16/How-to-track-database-growth-across-multiple-SQL-Server-instances.aspx

There are various scripts to track table growth. Here's MVJ's script: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=61762

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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-08-30 : 15:57:38
Here's another good link: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=148916

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Lumbago
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Posted - 2010-08-31 : 05:50:36
Tara; I found your blog post really interesting and I had this exact problem a few years ago when I worked with an ASP provider with roughly 250 instances of sql server. I never got around the security part of it and logging in to each and every server...how do you do this? I see that the connection is using integrated security but how is this handled on the individual server? Are they all in the same domain?? Domain trusts..?

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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-08-31 : 11:54:11
I support 3 different domains, and there is no domain trust due to Corporate security policy. Since I am using integration security for this (never got around to modifying it for SQL authentication), I install the tool onto one central server in each of the domains.

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Lumbago
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Posted - 2010-09-01 : 03:03:48
Yep, that explains it then. When I worked on this all instances belonged to different clients so I started creating some procedures using OPENROWSET and a table with specific sql server logins for each instance. I got it working in a test environment but getting it to run across vlans and different zones was a mess so the project basically got canned.

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