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SQL Server 2005 Unexpected Disk Usage during Backups [closed]

On our SQL Server 2005 SP4 server we have a maintenance plan in place which performs a full backup of selected databases on a nightly basis. The databases are configured in Simple recovery mode and ...
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Get disk space percentage free with SQL Server 2005?

I am currently using SQL Server 2005 and (undocumented I believe) master..xp_fixeddrives to get free space on my database volumes as part of my monitoring. However, this only gives me an absolute ...
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Does an analysis/optimization tool like SqlYog exist for SQL Server 2005 (and later)?

I'm curious about effective space allocation of my tables, so: does something like SqlYog exist for SQL Server 2005 (and later)? Of course I know SSMS, but I was looking for something more precise ...
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SQL Server 2005: Full-text search space requirements

Is there a way to calculate the physical drive space required for a full-text search catalog? Space is cheap, but I'd like to know what I'm getting into. I'm looking at a table of about 200 articles ...
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Strategy to handle an SQL Server DB with too many files (BLOBs) in it?

Scenario: SQL Server 2005 database servicing an ASP.NET application (on a separate web servers). Database: DB has about 5GB of "normal" data in it, and about 15GB of "files" (e.g.: a 200k PDF stored ...