>>What seemed strange to me is that the .bak file is about half the size of the actual database .MDF file. Does it mean that .bak has it compressed? Or .bak file does not have something that the actual .MDF file has?
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>It should be smaller.
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>It would be compressed it it was done like this:
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>USE MyDatabase
>BACKUP DATABASE [MyDatabase] TO DISK='D:\MyDatabase.bak' with compression
>GO
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>Also, maybe SHRINKFILE was added to the parameters, which would make some of the files even smaller.
Thank you.
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