so to test whether I'm crazy or not, I did a restore on the 3TB database onto a test server and deleted every table except for one table, which is...

log space is not an issue.

I see the DBCC process running, but it almost looks like nothing is going on. I would expect to see some heavy I/O activity,...

this is not the log I am trying to shrink, it's one of the data files I am trying to shrink.

I actually did do that for one of my packages, but that was easy because it only involved one table. I would have to hate to write a separate...

well, this is a time series table, so the datetime field is a timestamp. However, the timestamp is not a physical representation of when the row gets inserted into...

it's actually 50 billion rows....cut down to about 12 billion rows. Table is not wide though, it's basically like a key value pair with an ID, a datetime, and...

anyone? surely someone else must have this issue?