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Disk space full but logical space available in database

We have a fairly big MS SQL 2008R2 database that resides on a SSD drive. The drive itself only has ~110Gb of space, and the database files are the only files on the drive. The database is in "Simple" ...
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SQL Server split mdf into multiple files

I have a database called example.mdf with a total size of 1GB which suffers from performance issues. I checked the allocated hardware and it is higher than required, I double checked the design and ...
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Identify File Growth Events

I'm discovering a number of DBs in my portfolio that have been created with default autogrow settings (either 1 MB or 10% increments) that have expanded for an extended period of time. If I wanted to ...
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How many files should I create for one filegroup and 9 weekly partitions?

I have 9 weekly partitions on one filegroup. How many files do I need to create? There are 3 tables containing 46 million, 16 million and 10 million rows.
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Do I really need to keep .LDF files?

Each month we make an end of month snapshot of our production databse. These month end snapshots are strictly for reporting purposes, there are no inserts, updates or deletes ever done on them. Each ...