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Chapter 5: Creating and Altering Tables
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|ADD LOG FILE
([NAME = ,]
FILENAME =
[, SIZE = < size in KB, MB, GB or TB >]
[, MAXSIZE = < size in KB, MB, GB or TB >]
[, FILEGROWTH = ])
|REMOVE FILE [WITH DELETE]
|ADD FILEGROUP
|REMOVE FILEGROUP
|MODIFY FILE
|MODIFY NAME =
|MODIFY FILEGROUP {|NAME =
}
|SET [,...n ][WITH ]
|COLLATE
The reality is that you will very rarely use all that stuff — sometimes I think Microsoft just puts it there
for the sole purpose of confusing the heck out of us (just kidding!).
So, after looking at all that gobbledygook, let’s just worry about what we need to expand our database
out to 100MB:
ALTER DATABASE Accounting
MODIFY FILE
(NAME = Accounting,
SIZE = 100MB)
Note that, unlike when we created our database, we don’t get any information about the allocation of
space — instead, we get the rather non-verbose:
The command(s) completed successfully.
Gee — how informative . . . So, we’d better check on things for ourselves:
EXEC sp_helpdb Accounting
Name db_ size Owner dbid Created Status Compatibility_
level
Accounting 105.00
MB
Sa 9 May 28
2005
Status=ONLINE, Update -
ability=READ_WRITE,
UserAccess=MULTI_USER,
Recovery=FULL,
Version=598,
Collation=SQL_Latin1_
General_CP1_CI_AS,
SQLSortOrder=52,
IsAutoCreate-Statistics,
IsAutoUpdate-
Statistics,
IsFullText-Enabled
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