Trace flag 1117 is a setting that is often misunderstood.  When enabled it forces any file growth event on a data file to include all data files in the same file group so that the files can remain the same size.  I usually hear it described as a setting that changes how TempDB files are treated as they need to grow. While true, what is interesting is that this is more of a side effect of the flag.  The trace flag is not TempDB specific and affects all databases on a SQL Server instance that have more than 1 file in any file group andRead More →