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Storage performance best practices and considerations for Azure SQL DB Managed Instance (General Purpose)

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Dec 20, 2018
First published on MSDN on Jul 20, 2018 Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem, Arvind Shyamsundar, Branislav Uzelac In this article, we descr...
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thanos7 yes, you do have to increase the size of each file to get higher IOPS and throughput for that file. The 8TB limit only controls the total disk space you can consume on the instance.