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SHRINKFILE best practices and experience [duplicate]
Preamble: In general it's a big no-no, but believe me that are rare cases when space is really needed. For example Express Edition is limited to 10GB. Imagine that you discovered that with a data type ...
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Reduce MDF file size [duplicate]
I am working with a 500 GB SQL Server database. I need to reduce the size of the database data file after removing a large amount (50%) of the data.
I tried re indexing, it's good the database has de-...
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Releasing free space in mdf file to OS [duplicate]
We have a 120GB database. There was table with 60GB of data which is useless and we have truncated it.
Now database size is 120GB with free space 60GB. The database will not grow up to 60GB in at ...
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Are there any disadvantages to shrinking a database? [duplicate]
My production server's database grows unexpectedly and almost I am going to create a job for shrinking the database which runs once in a month. Is it a good idea?
The backups was failed and the time ...
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Release unused space from SQL Server database [duplicate]
We have deleted a large part of the data from a two-digit terabyte sized database, and would now like to release some of the space back to the operating system. The database is currently about 80 % ...
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Freeing space after deleting rows [duplicate]
I have a SQL Server 2008 instance and one table is quite large (log data) so I delete old logs. Now I start to read articles on this problem, here is one.
As I see it there is no solution! If I ...
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reusing space after deleting lots of rows [duplicate]
I have a database which is 20 GB and it has history information since year 2001.
Now I started deleting data prior to year 2008. after completion of deletion how can i reuse the space that is cleared ...
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Shrink database after removing extra data [duplicate]
We have a need to fit a database in 4GB in order to use SQL Server Express Edition. I started from a 7GB database, and found a lot of unneeded records, and deleted them. After shrinking, the database ...
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Shrink of a big databases ? SQL Server [duplicate]
In this moment I have a very big database (almost 4 TB) and wanna shrink data files for a future migration
Unused space : almost 3000 GB
I have in mind shrink data files day per day with low amount of ...
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1 time shrink of abused databse or restore from backup [duplicate]
I have a database that I have inherited which has been left for a long time to grow and grow. 95% of this growth is caused by 1 log table used by our application. The database is 120GB and in full ...
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Shrinking bigger databases [duplicate]
Hello masters of MS SQL
I have a kind of a problem on my hands. We have quite big DB (5TB) and we've just "enabled" some software archiving which means that most of the data will migrate to other DB'...
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Is a SQL Server DB worth shrinking? [duplicate]
I purged about 100 GB on 200 GB SQL Server v11 DB. The MDF file still show about 200 GB in the file explorer.
Everything looks fine, first tests shows 50% time treatments increase and the backup's ...
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Why Does the Transaction Log Keep Growing or Run Out of Space?
This one seems to be a common question in most forums and all over the web, it is asked here in many formats that typically sound like this:
In SQL Server -
What are some reasons the transaction log ...
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Get MS SQL Server to release disk space
A poorly managed database table has grown to be enormous. 48+gigs of orphan records. I am trying to clean it up and put my dangerously full hard drive back to a normal state. I will be deleting approx ...
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Releasing Free Space
I am running a rather large database on SQL Server 2008 R2 Express. Recently I hit the 10GB limit, so the system would not allow me to create anymore objects, ect..
I have archived off a very large ...
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