August 20, 2009 at 8:36 am
I have as database that has a size of 65548.83 MB and the space available is 59386.77 MB. As you can tell there is a lot of free space. How do I reclaim this space and resize my database. I've tried a shrinkdatabase with truncateonly but that doesn't work.
August 20, 2009 at 8:37 am
SORRY for the 2nd posting - I hit the button by accident again I guess.
August 20, 2009 at 8:41 am
Do you know which files have grown? if its just the log files then you will need to take a transaction log backup and right after that finishes you should be able to shrink the files.
August 20, 2009 at 8:43 am
you might also want to check into the settings you have for automatic file growth, and look at what caused the database to grow to that size in the first place.
August 20, 2009 at 8:46 am
the mdf is the biggest file the log is only at 1 mb right now
August 20, 2009 at 9:02 am
If you go to enterprise manager and right click the database name and go all tasks, shrink database then click on the Files button. You can specify a size to Shrink the file to. Or if you would rather you could use DBCC SHRINKFILE.
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