• Check what wait type the shrink process has. It's a SQL Server process, it'll show in the DMVs like any other running session and a suspended status just means that it's waiting for something. Check what its wait type and wait resource are.

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