Release unused space after drop table in SQL 2008 Enterprise Edition

  • I believe I am having the same issue.

    I copied a 300GB table out to a new filegroup (because to was too large to shrink after mass deletes)

    It ended up to be only 75GB in the new File Group Location.

    I dropped the original table.

    The ndf file where the old 300GB table will not shrink down below 52GB even though there is only 2GB of data left in the filegroup. I rebuilt every Table in the filegroup

    DBCC Shrinkfile (N'FileGroupName',1024) did not reclaim any space below 52GB

  • sbaker-757360 (3/16/2012)


    I believe I am having the same issue.

    I copied a 300GB table out to a new filegroup (because to was too large to shrink after mass deletes)

    It ended up to be only 75GB in the new File Group Location.

    I dropped the original table.

    The ndf file where the old 300GB table will not shrink down below 52GB even though there is only 2GB of data left in the filegroup. I rebuilt every Table in the filegroup

    DBCC Shrinkfile (N'FileGroupName',1024) did not reclaim any space below 52GB

    2 problems with your post 1) This thread is almost 6 months old and 2) a new topic would be better for your post as we would have a fresh thread to help you out.


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  • I'll create a new post:-P

  • Did you create a new post?

  • AER (3/17/2012)


    Did you create a new post?

    Yes, here[/url]

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