Auto Extend On, Increment By

I have proposed to have all datafiles on all databases autoextend with and increment size of 1280 blocks, (10Mbs).  

Responses I am getting back are like: The increment should be based on the size of the datafile and how rapidly it's increasing in size. How to measure growth.  

My reaction is like: Being consistent does not mean behavior will change in each situation. For datafiles that do not increase... they won't autoextend anyway. For datafiles that do extend, the ones that grow less will not extend very often. One datafile may extend once per week, and another twice a year. You don't have to have a 'size' that is proportional to how fast it grows.    

I'm wondering what the communities reaction is before I respond.  

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator

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