Answer by Don for DBCC SHRINKFILE performance
The solution is to Leave extra room.When shrinking the MDF files, if I leave some unused space (do not remove ALL unused space) then it finishes considerably faster.For example: If a 3TB database has...
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I have a production SQL Server 2008 with 8 TB spread over several databases. I've deleted about 85% of the data in each database and MUST recover the disk space. The final SUM of all USED_SPACE will be...
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