title: Creating tables in SQL Server 2005 master DB
body: <p>I am adding a monitoring script to check the size of my DB files so I can deliver a weekly report which shows each files size and how much it grew over the last week.  In order to get the growth, I was simply going to log a record into a table each week with each DB's size, then compare to the previous week's results.  The only trick is where to keep that table.  What are the trade-offs in using the master DB instead of just creating a new DB to hold these logs? (I'm assuming there will be other monitors we will add in the future) </p>