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vs.satheesh

Posted Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:20 AM

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In My Production server i am facing following problem.

Totally my database size showing 134 GB.But my data size is 10GB and index size is 3 GB.whenever i use this sp_spaceused command.
i am getting following result

database_name database_size unallocated space
-----------------------------------------------------------
XYZ 137353.13 MB 122962.30 MB

reserved data index_size unused
------------------ ------------------ ------------------ -------
14720464 KB 11105104 KB 3625280 KB -9920 KB

How to reduce this MDF file size ? what is unallocated space?

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Suresh B.

Posted Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:38 AM

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Is this database upgraded from SQL 2000 version?
What is the log file size?

Please run this query and post the results here:

use dbname
go

select name, type_desc, size/128 'Size(MB)', FILEPROPERTY(name, 'SpaceUsed') / 128 'SpaceUsed(MB)'
from sys.database_files

You can the reduce the MDF file size by using DBCC SHRINKFILE. But set the file size to appropriate size.

Unallocated space = 'Space in the database that has not been reserved for database objects.' (from BOL)

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vs.satheesh

Posted Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:06 PM

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whenever i am executing following query i am getting following result.how to reduce the space

select name, type_desc, size/128 'Size(MB)', FILEPROPERTY(name, 'SpaceUsed') / 128 'SpaceUsed(MB)'
from sys.database_files

name type_desc Size(MB) SpaceUsed(MB)

IEDBNew_Data ROWS 137337 14729
IEDBNew_Log LOG 459 19

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Suresh B.

Posted Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:54 PM

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You can use DBCC SHRINKFILE. For example:

use IEDBNew
go

dbcc shrinkfile(IEDBNew_Data, 30720) -- 30GB

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vs.satheesh

Posted Monday, August 27, 2012 1:22 AM

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Hi I am getting following result .But Disk space not yet reduced.please help me

DbId FileId CurrentSize MinimumSize UsedPages EstimatedPages
------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- --------------
7 1 17579232 128 1885120 1885088

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Suresh B.

Posted Monday, August 27, 2012 4:50 AM

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It is because there is used page at the end which needs to be moved to front of the file.
Please run DBCC SHRINKFILE with NOTRUNCATE option as shown in the following example:

use IEDBNew
go
dbcc shrinkfile(IEDBNew_Data, NOTRUNCATE);
go
dbcc shrinkfile(IEDBNew_Data, 30720) -- 30GB
go

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Divine Flame

Posted Monday, August 27, 2012 8:44 AM

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Just remember that shrinking will cause the indexes to be fragmented. Therefore rebuilding the indexes will be required after shrinking has been done.

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