So now that I've become the semi-dba at my current job I'm trying to improve a lot of the things that weren't really being considered before. One of these is trying to make sure that databases aren't set to autogrow and are assigned appropriate size limits. My problem is the SharePoint database. Since the databases for SharePoint could grow at unexpected rates I'm not sure what to do with them. I'm looking for some advice from other dbas who manage SharePoint databases.
Database – Autogrow on a SharePoint database
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Best Answer
There are at least two ways you can handle trying to figure out the size of the database.
On top of this you should always be monitoring your database sizes and set up alerts to trigger whenever things look like they could fill up in X days. X will be the time it takes you to not only expand the database, but make sure that it is properly defragmented afterwards and your new restore time figured out. X may also include the time that it takes to add more storage to your SAN/DAS.
The reason I picked 100 GB is because that is inline with the recomended max size of a sharepoint database taken from their documentation. It's not to say that you can't do larger, but need to understand the repurcusions of that choice.