DBCC SHRINKDATABASE() and DBCC SHRINKFILE() are the correct tools to use. Are you getting somekind of message?

-Mike

>I have several databases that have a lot of «Unused Space».
>I can't figure out why nor how to free that space.
>Here is the situation:
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>I have several tables in the database that report the following kind of values from sp_spaceused:
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>Reserved: 300000 KB
>Data: 38000 KB
>index_size: 2500 KB
>Unused: 258000 KB
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>But I can't in any way recover this space. Not using dbcc shrinkdatabase nor using dbcc shrinkfile.
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>The only way I can free the space is to bulk copy the data out of each table and then back in.
>If in the table where I issued the sp_spaceused before (the example above) i do:
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>select * into newtable from oldtable
>drop oldtable
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>and recreate the primary keys, indexes, etc. on the new table, when i do a sp_spaceused on this new table i get something like:
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>Reserved: 21000 KB
>Data: 20000 KB
>index_size: 500 KB
>Unused: 80 KB
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>
>Can anyone help me please ? How do I recover the space without bulk copying every table out and in ?