Managing Big Database

Hi
I have a Database over 50G. It increases 1G per day!
Today I detach the current database and move the data&log file to E drive. T
hen I use DTS transfering those data to a new database on D drive. The data
base becomes 18G!!!! I check the tables, everything is there.
How did this happen? I thought there must be something about fragments. But
I am not sure. Can anyone tell me?
And is there any other way to defrag the database without taking off-line?
thank you very muchDBCC ShrinkDatabase?
Most of the suggestions in http://www.aspfaq.com/2446 apply to any database.
Also see http://www.aspfaq.com/2471
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
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> Hi
> I have a Database over 50G. It increases 1G per day!
> Today I detach the current database and move the data&log file to E drive.

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Then I use DTS transfering those data to a new database on D drive. The
database becomes 18G!!!! I check the tables, everything is there.

quote:

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> How did this happen? I thought there must be something about fragments.

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But I am not sure. Can anyone tell me?

quote:

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> And is there any other way to defrag the database without taking off-line?
>
> thank you very much

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|||I have found the cause! It's because that I didn't build the index.|||I shrink database every day. The log file is quite small.|||and make sure you take backups of the database in order to be able to shrink
the transaction log in case of a full recovery model.
Check books online on dbcc shrinkdatabase, dbcc shrinkfile, and shrinking
the transaction log
Regards,
Dandy Weyn
MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, MCT
www.dandyman.net
"I.O" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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quote:

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> Hi
> I have a Database over 50G. It increases 1G per day!
> Today I detach the current database and move the data&log file to E drive.

---

Then I use DTS transfering those data to a new database on D drive. The
database becomes 18G!!!! I check the tables, everything is there.

quote:

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> How did this happen? I thought there must be something about fragments.

---

But I am not sure. Can anyone tell me?

quote:

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> And is there any other way to defrag the database without taking off-line?
>
> thank you very much

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