Comments on: SQL SERVER – DBCC SHRINKFILE Takes Long Time to Run

By: Anup Das

Anup Das — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:35:17 +0000

Hi Ashutosh,

Just thought to reply to this as Pinal will be busy with many activities.

No,there is no way to compress a backup file using SQL 2k5.You might have to go with a 3rd party solution.

Thank You,
Anup

By: Anup Das

Anup Das — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:31:42 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I found the answer.We can anytime stop the execution of the DBCC command,however in production environment its not a best practise to break DBCC commands.

Thank You,
Anup

By: Anup Das

Anup Das — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:41:19 +0000

Thanks Pinal for this info.I was not aware that its a single thread process.Appreciate the info.

Could you also confirm if there are any options to kill the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE command.I belive this might cause inconsistency for the database.Any thoughts please.

Thank You,
Anup

By: Avineet

Avineet — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:45:14 +0000

How can you shrink a 150GB db, without doing a DBCC reindex. Is it not feasible at all? Has the threading technology been replaced in SQL 2K5 with Multy from single.

By: ashutosh

ashutosh — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:21:26 +0000

Hi, Pinal

I used to read your article always, they are very valubale in several ways. I have a question about compression of back file .

Can we compress the bak file thorugh sql 2k5?

Or if any other way to compress the .bak file that will be very useful way for saving Disk space

By: Cherie

Cherie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:15:06 +0000

What’s the right way to shrink data file

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:05:18 +0000

Thanks for the tip, it’s nice to know that
yes, I have had to wait on SHRINK couple times (and almost killing every other transaction by slowing to turtle speed)