Auto Grow Auto Shrink --- HELP!

  • Here's the situation....

    DB:SQL Server 2K

    Project manager decides we will use select - inserts to load an extraction database (26 tables, 3 with large record counts) from our transaction system. I fought for bcp, but no dice.

    So, the Extract db was initially created with 1 meg for t_log, with simple recovery.

    Our process to load E_db: Drop indexes in E_db, run proc to load each table, build indexes on E_db.

    we have 18 messages in the log

    Autogrow of file 'TWIA_Extract_Log' in database 'TWIA_Extract' took 96641 milliseconds.  Consider using ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH for this file.

    The auto growth was set to 10%. I turned off auto shrink, set the file growth on the T_log to 5000 meg increments. thinking it would reduce the number of auto growths.

    still getting the message (18 of them, again)

    Autogrow of file 'TWIA_Extract_Log' in database 'TWIA_Extract' took 238375 milliseconds.  Consider using ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH for this file.

    I'm armed with the SQL Server Admin 2000 book as my reference, and have no clue where to start to fix this problem.

    I think it's shrinking the t_log after each insert, because of the simple recovery model. Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance from a DBA in the making,

    Vicki

     

     

  • How about creating a very large file to reduce autogrowth at least till the file gets there.The autogrowth process consumes useful resources when the extraction process could  be better served

    Mike

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