''Never'' is a strong word, so let me say that we really really want to avoid it, if at all humanly possible. In short, we will have a (potentially) broken database, both at the physical level and at the logical level. Read on. Just to be clear, when I refer to a ''log file'' here, I'm talking about a transaction log file, an .ldf file. Ever so ...

Are you stupid, you might think... But stop and think for a while. Model is no different from other databases. And by default it is in full recovery model. So as soon as you do your first database backup (you do backup your system databases, right?) the log for model will start filling up and autogrow. ''But, hey, I don't do any modifications in ...