One twist in the complexity is that, this DB is mirrored. If i were to do a shrink in increments, will the mirrored DB also be shrunk or do I...

Brandie,

I would be able to accomplish the first part which is to have it single user and have no inbound data to it during shrink.

For the second part,...

One attempt I tried is, changing the Recovery model to Simple. Stopped mirroring and took a transaction log backup. I restarted the shrink process.

To verify the progress, i run...