Database Growth

  • Hi,

    If a database is used only to read from, will its data files still grow? Only select queries are executed against the database, and there are no inserts/updates being carried out.

    Thanks.

  • Your database should not grow if it is readonly, but if you have complex select queries with lot of sorting, grouping then your tempdb will keep growing.



    Praveen D'sa
    MCITP - Database Administrator 2008
    http://sqlerrors.wordpress.com

  • Hi,

    Thanks for the speedy reply.

    The database is not set to read_only.

    All users are restricted to db_datareader access. Only "Select" queries are run against the database. No users are permitted to execute insert/update/alter etc.

    Thanks.

  • through SELECT queries your database size will not grow however as i mentioned earlier tempdb might still grow also if you carry out any database maintenance tasks on this database then your log file will also grow.



    Praveen D'sa
    MCITP - Database Administrator 2008
    http://sqlerrors.wordpress.com

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