Hello,
I have a DB (MSSQL 2008 R2) app. 20 GB in size. It's on a remote server, so the bigger the size the slower the backups and (potential) restore.
In some tables I stored binary files. I changed this, so I deleted these files and released 12 GB of space. I expected the DB would shrink in size, but it's still 20 GB (with 12 GB of "available space").
I will do the same with some other tables, so I expect my DB to be less then 1GB in size. Growing rate app. 250 MB per year.
I saw a lot of posts saying that you should NOT shrink the DB.
Is there any other way to remove unnecessary available space, because I do not need a 20 GB DB file, where only 1 GB of data is really stored??
Thx
M