• Jeffrey Williams (1/1/2009)


    Database is so big, there are many unused backup tables in database, so I delete them and reduce Database size to easy manage. That's why I want to shrink

    As your article, after shrinking, the log file size will increase. Then can I continue to shrink Log file after that?

    What the matter if I setup target size smaller, ex 8GB? Can it automatically to be 10G?

    Thanks

    No - you don't want to shrink either the data file or the log file on a regular/scheduled basis. Do so will cause more problems than it is worth.

    Please review the article I link to in my signature on how the manage transaction logs.

    No, I don't shrink it regular. I just want to do once now to reduce MDF size because I just delete so many unused records in this DB