• Shrinking with EmptyFile will give you just as much fragmentation as shrinking without that option. It's not a magic good shrink.

    If all you're trying to do is remove empty space in the file, do a once off shrinkfile and then rebuild the indexes.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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