File growth settings basics

I am pretty new to MSSQL (not a DBA), and trying to understand the basics of filegrowth settings. None of the databases have a max size set, so presumably they will keep growing as long as their is free disk space. But then I noticed there is file growth
column in sys.database_files that can be set to a percent. How can you tell when that growth is going to trigger? Say for example a 10GB database with a 10% file growth, something is going to then grow to 11GB? But how can you predict when the growth kicks
in when there is nothing to say 10% file growth will kick in when the DB reaches XYZ size?

Autogrowth happens when there is no more space for a transaction to complete.
It is a good practice and highly recommended not to keep the autogrowth in Percent, simply because the higher the size the bigger the growth.
I would suggest to set it in MB's say 250 MB and monitor and fine tune. The basic idea is that the autogrowth should be quick and queries should not have to wait while the file growth happens as it hinders performance. You need to find the sweet spot
here so that autogrowth operation completes fast and increases to a reasonable size such that another autogrowth is not required immediately.
That being said, we should never rely on autogrowth. Autogrowth is to cater for unforceen situations when a huge data load quickly filled the space which was not anticipated. You should always pre allocate the space for your data and log files depending
upon the growth predictions.
Regards, Ashwin Menon My Blog - http:\\sqllearnings.com

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