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vna_mhars
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Philippines
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Posted - 01/09/2013 :  22:48:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,
I have a database size 125GB of .mdf, I transferred some records base from the retention period of records. so from year 2002 - 2007 was transferred to a new database and then deleted to original database. After the deletion my database size still the same. .mdf still 125GB.

My question is, how to reduce the size of .mdf data since I deleted lots of records. I'm using SQL2008

Thanks,
vna


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visakh16
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India
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Posted - 01/09/2013 :  23:03:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
see

http://blog.strictly-software.com/2012/08/shrinking-ms-sql-database-mdf-file.html

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vna_mhars
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Philippines
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Posted - 01/09/2013 :  23:50:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi, THank you for immediate response. I have doubt in using DBCC Shrinkfile due to the disk fragmentation, however I tried this one in testDB, I also tried the DBCC ShrinkDatabase but I'm still looking for other alternatives.

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see

http://blog.strictly-software.com/2012/08/shrinking-ms-sql-database-mdf-file.html

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sodeep
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USA
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Posted - 01/11/2013 :  14:20:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes it will cause huge fragmentation for indexes and pages.

Check this out from Paul Randal for alternative:
http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/why-you-should-not-shrink-your-data-files/
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srimami
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Posted - 01/15/2013 :  08:50:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The other solution would be Alter Table with rebuild option, I haven't tried it for un-allocated space though but definitely works for unused space.
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