InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comThu, 23 May 2013 13:37:07 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1366164-360-1.aspxYou said you want to shrink because your backups are taking too long. Shrinking will not reduce the duration of your backups.How big is that DB? How long will it take for the normal data growth to reuse that 10GB?Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:17:39 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1366164-360-1.aspxHi Gail,Thanx for your reply.As i already explained in my post why i want to Shrink DB.I have deleted Table that is occupied 10GB space in DB, so why DB showing same size after deletion of this 10GB table.Pls help me to reduce this 10 GB space from SQL DB.Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:27:37 GMTneellotus07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1366164-360-1.aspxWhy do you want to shrink? Databases tend to grow as more data gets put in them. It's in their nature.Shrinking causes massive fragmentation and will just result in the data file growing again next time data gets added. When that happens, the entire system will slow down as the file is expanded. Also repeated shrinks and grows will cause fragmentation at the file-system level, which is hard to fix.See - [url]http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2007/09/08/shrinking-databases/[/url]Shrinking won't make your backups any faster, because backups only read allocated extents, not empty space.Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:35:05 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1366164-360-1.aspxHi All,I had a table (Size = 10GB) with Millions of records that was storing ShowXML plan through SQL Server Profiler Tarce, due to this my db size increased.So i right click on this table then delete it, but size of DB is same but it should decreased as i deleted 10GB Table.So I'm planning to use "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE" and i want to know is it safe to Shrink Database file in SQL server 2005.Due to increase of DB size it is taking long time for backup.Thanx NeelSat, 29 Sep 2012 00:09:40 GMTneellotus07