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Posted - 2004-11-26 : 08:54:44
sorin writes "good afternoon.
here's my problem.
hope you can help me.

i have this table that contains around 60 millions records.
i have added two columns : an integer and a nvarchar(2000)-when it was empty.
compared with the old table - it has grown almost ten times- having the same number of records.
no indexes added.
the nvarchar(2000) contains only 23 characters per record.
i have to keep this representation.

and now :
could you please tell me:
-why does the database grown so much?
-how can i save the space (without losing the 2 columns)?

thank you.
if you can- please huury with the answer.
the harddisk is almost full...
:)"

spirit1
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Posted - 2004-11-26 : 09:12:39
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE 'dbname' should help you

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ravilobo
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Posted - 2004-11-26 : 10:08:21
Truncate the log ...

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