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  • RE: Restore space needed WAY more than bak file size

    Thanks Bill. That's exactly what I was looking for. Sorry for the repost.

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  • RE: Big DB with lots of free space. Can I shrink?

    Thanks Perry.

    That script worked was perfect.

    I plan on leaving between 20% and 25% free space in the file. Should be a good buffer to prevent file growth.

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  • RE: Big DB with lots of free space. Can I shrink?

    Thanks Michael.

    I verified that the vast majority of the tables, including the larger ones and ones most heavily used, have clustered indexes on the primary key columns, so I should...

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  • RE: Big DB with lots of free space. Can I shrink?

    Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

    I'm gathering index sizes now. With over 500 tables it will take some time.

    We do have a test database but we don't have direct access to...

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  • RE: Big DB with lots of free space. Can I shrink?

    Thanks GSquared.

    In my case tempdb is on the same disk, so will sorting in tempdb still help?

    Also, do I actually need to worry about about the indexes taking...

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