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Chapter 6: Creating and Managing User Databases

Estimating the required space

The size allocation decisions you make are important, because it is difficult to reclaim storage space after it has been assigned. You can always add space; however, you cannot deallocate space that has been assigned to a database, unless you drop the database first.

You can estimate the size of the tables and indexes for your database by using sp_estspace or by calculating the value. See Chapter 15, “Determining Sizes of Tables and Indexes,” in the Performance and Tuning Guide: Monitoring for instructions.





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