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miksh
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:00 PM
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Hi all,
Below is the result when we run the sp_spaceused for a table:
name rows reserved data index_size unused
---------- ----------- ------------------ ------------------ -------------
mytable 0 8441576 KB 8439672 KB 0 1864 KB
As you see a table has 0 rows and 0 index size, but the reserved/data size is huge. How to reduce this table size?
We tried to re-index the table, and used the DBCC cleantable to reduce the size, but the reserved size wasn’t changed. We cannot truncate the table because it is one of the replicated tables. Is there a way to reduce the reserved size (it’s really an empty table) without truncating it?
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getoffmyfoot
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:14 PM
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You could do a DBCC shrinkdb... but that would be a database-wide shrink which may not be desirable.
You could also drop/create table...
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miksh
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:46 PM
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Hmm.... very brutal solution. Anything else possible for SQL 2005?
Btw, Shrink Dtabase/File Task dialog in Mgmt Studio shows that the only 3GB could be freed but that table has 8GB free. Why? Could shrinking really do the trick?
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Derrick Smith
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:48 PM
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Try a DBCC DBREINDEX(tablename)
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raistlinx
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:48 PM
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If the table has 0 rows in it then why not just drop and recreate it to the size you want?
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SQLRNNR
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:50 PM
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raistlinx (9/27/2010)
If the table has 0 rows in it then why not just drop and recreate it to the size you want?
Downstream effects can be brutal.
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 12:51 PM
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Did you recently perform a delete operation on this table that removed all records? Or ever?
Try doing an index rebuild for the indexes on the table. Update statistics and DBCC updateusage.
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miksh
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 1:13 PM
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CirquedeSQLeil (9/27/2010)
Did you recently perform a delete operation on this table that removed all records? Or ever?
Yes we did. Recently we kept data allocating ~1.5GB and now decided to delete all the records daily using DELETE.
Try doing an index rebuild for the indexes on the table. Update statistics and DBCC updateusage.
We rebuilt all the indexes and updating staistics daily as well as tried DBCC CLEANTABLE but nothing helped. We'll try DBCC updateusage, thanks for advice.
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getoffmyfoot
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Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 1:24 PM
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Yea, the drop/create table is brutal... however what about drop/creating all the indexes if they won't shrink? if the table has 0 rows that seems like a pretty safe option, no?
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CirquedeSQLeil (9/27/2010)
Update statistics and DBCC updateusage.
Well, it didn't help.
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