SQL7 shrink and merge data files

  • Our server storage capacity has been increased and but on a different drive than Sql7 is using. I have moved the log and primary datafiles to their new location and need to merge two data files together. The size of the datafiles I hope to remove is much larger than the log file can grow.

    What should I do ? Is logging used ? Can logging be turned off ? Would this even help ?

    Thanks

    How I moved the data files.

    use master

    sp_detach_db 'ZD1'

    sp_attach_db 'ZD1'

    ,'j:\sqldata\zd1data1.mdf'

    ,'g:\zd1data2\zd1data2.ndf'

    ,'e:\sqldata\zd1log1.ldf'

    How I plan to remove data file zd1data2.

    use ZD1

    dbcc shrinkfile (zd1data2, emptyfile)

    Alter database ZD1 remove file zd1data2

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