Shrink database

  • Hi

    I have a scheduled job that runs on my server everyday from 2100, and it ends about 2330. I have noticed that the database increase in size during this job, not to mention that it allocates alot of free space and it keeps holding that free space after the job ends.

    Thus I have to shrink the database after this job. No problem, but there has to be away around this?

    I use scheduled shrink right after the job ends, but can I shrink while the job run?

    My shrink settings:

    - max free space in files after shrink: 99%

    - shrink file to [minimum]

    Should I use some other settings? i.e. truncate free space from the end of file.

     

    ps! cross post to forums: general and backups

    Best regards

    Dan

  • u say jobs, what type of job is that.

  • u say jobs, what type of job is that.

  • One possibility for the growth is that you are running DBCC DBREINDEX on one or more large tables.  If so, the growth is unavoidable, since SQL Server needs the space to temporarily store the data/index pages.

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