Hi
   In terms of performance check on indexing the tables, also check on different execution styles for the DB... for further performance separate the install hard drive,  database hard drive and log hard drive,  if u are using server 08 check performance of the disk you will see a notorious temp db activity also u can optimize by adding more temp db..formula usually for each 2 cores one temp db... but read from white papers to see if any of these affect your system

Regards
GG

On Feb 19, 2014 5:44 PM, "Tusker 21" <tusker212@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks @Jangita and @John. Will look at the current set configurations of the DB attribute types and lengths.

@Rad The current DB stands at 250Gib, the log file used to be bigger than the DB hence we run a Job to shrink the Log and the DB everyday as part of DB Maintenance. Shrinking is our8 temp solution of freeing any unutilized space and compressing the log


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
1) What do you mean by 'grows significantly'
2) WHY do you want to shrink it?


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Tusker 21 <tusker212@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the best way to maintain a database that grows significantly. Currently i am using DBCC Shrink command. However this is said to have performance issues as the indexing of the DB is affected. 

Any guru n the list who can assist?

R,
T21

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