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Everyone warns against shrinking a database, but will it work in my case? 1 GB db with tables removed now 100 MB

Everyone is warning against shrinking a database, e.g. SQLAuthority But will it be a valid option in my case? The database was originally more than 1 GB, but with a table removed from it (moved to ...
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Optimising a Database Shrink (in terms of speed and reducing fragmentation)

We have a large database that has had a lot of older data stripped out, leaving primary datafile (all objects are currently in the primary filegroup) of about 80Gb containing a little less than 20Gb ...