May 22, 2014 at 6:07 am
what are the adv and disadvantages of shrinking the database
May 22, 2014 at 6:10 am
Disadvantage: Expensive, time consuming operation
Disadvantage: Done excessively will just force the database to re-grow, wasting more resources
Disadvantage: Massively fragments all indexes.
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May 22, 2014 at 11:58 am
<sarcasm>Advantage: you look like a hero when you make everything work better when you turn off the process that shrinks the database </sarcasm>
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May 22, 2014 at 12:17 pm
The only possible conceivable advantage is in the case where you are unable to get more disk space so the only option is to shrink a database to try and free some space from an over filled storage device.
Otherwise it is pretty much disadvantages as listed already.
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