but i'm NOT talking about 'internal' fragmentation - i'm talking about 'external' fragmentation of the datafile itself. this might also be corrected using OS defrag tools; but they usually take...

well, the numbers i mentioned on the previous post were of course from a test database where really nothing was happening an all the users are locked out;

the reason i...

well, i am sure that no one else is doing anything on the db, because to do all these tests, i made myself a copy of the original database (and...

i did as proposed: changed the database to simple mode, shrinked the whole database , switched back to full recovery mode.

then, for a while everything was ok... (and nothing did...