TempDB Autogrowth

I was shocked to find TempDB was the most often autogrown in our environment – and changing them by hand soon got old.

Here’s my global script to set them to best-practice values, that will only change files that exist, and will fail if the specified size is less than the current size (IE: it fails safe).

--tempdb_autogrowth.sql

-- report size and growth
select name, size*8/1024 [sizeMB], growth*8/1024 [growthMB]
from master.sys.master_files
where db_name(database_id) = 'tempdb'
order by physical_name


-- resize datafile(s) to 256MB & logfile to 128MB
USE [master]
GO
begin try
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'tempdev',  SIZE = 262144KB , FILEGROWTH = 262144KB );
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'tempdev2', SIZE = 262144KB , FILEGROWTH = 262144KB );
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'tempdev3', SIZE = 262144KB , FILEGROWTH = 262144KB );
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'tempdev4', SIZE = 262144KB , FILEGROWTH = 262144KB );
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'templog',  SIZE = 131072KB , FILEGROWTH = 131072KB );
end try begin catch end catch