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Travis

2006-01-11, 3:23 am

Hi ,

When I finish to create one non clustering index on of of my table , I
found out that the size of the hard disk increase amazingly.

I decide to drop the this index but the hard disk size did not back to
original size before that. What should I do next ? Please help

--
Travis Tan
Luca Bianchi

2006-01-11, 7:23 am

Travis wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> When I finish to create one non clustering index on of of my table
> , I found out that the size of the hard disk increase amazingly.
>
> I decide to drop the this index but the hard disk size did not back
> to original size before that. What should I do next ? Please help


It's possible to configure automatic grow for database files and in this
way, when a db need space for an object (table or index) it take from os. If
you delete an object the space previously allocated won't be shrunk (unless
you set auto_shrink option but it's better to avoid this).
You may use DBCC SHRINKDATABASE or, better, DBCC SHRINKFILE to reduce the
space used by a database. See BOL for more details and for sintax of DBCC
commands.

Bye

PS: "clustering" in the name of this newsgroup means "Clustering technology"
and not as clustered (or not clustered) index...

--
Luca Bianchi
Microsoft MVP - SQL Server
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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