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Chapter 3: Full Database Backups
In any event, in our case, we're just setting the SIZE and FILEGROWTH settings such that
SQL Server doesn't have to grow the files while we pump in our test data. We've used an
initial data files size of 500 MB, growing in 100 MB increments, and an initial size for the
log file of 100 MB, growing in 10 MB increments.
When you're ready, execute the script in Listing 3-1, and the database will be created.
Alternatively, if you prefer to create the database via the SSMS GUI, rather than using a
script, simply right-click on the Databases node in SSMS, select New Database…, and fill
out the General tab so it looks like that shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1: Creating a database via SSMS.
Setting database properties
If, via SSMS, we generate a CREATE script for an existing database, it will contain the
expected CREATE DATABASE section, specifying the values for the NAME, FILENAME,
SIZE, MAXSIZE and FILEGROWTH arguments. However, this will be followed by a swathe
of ALTER DATABASE commands that set various other database options. To see them
all, simply browse the various Properties pages for any database. All of these options
are, under the covers, assigned default values according to those specified by the model
system database; hence the name model, since it is used as a model from which to create
all user databases. Listing 3-2 shows a script to set six of the more important options.
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