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  • October 5, 2015 at 3:18 pm

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    Jeff Moden (10/5/2015)

    Just curious as to why you wouldn't shrink it to zero and regrow it properly.

    Huh? I said 'don't shrink it to zero', as in don't DBCC SHRINKFILE (2,0), which is what many bad shrink scripts do (simple recovery, shrink to zero, full recovery and let the log grow slowly back to the size it needs to be)

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