Re: Reclaiming diskspace after deleting rows



Steve B wrote:
I deleted about 20 million rows out of my DB that had about 200
million rows. I expected that I would regain diskspace when showing
the properties of that drive, but the disk was not reclaimed. Do I
need to shrink that DB in order to see how much actual space has been
reclaimed, or do I need to do something else?

And any idea how long it would take to do the shring?

What is the DB? Why wouldn't you think that information would be
relevant?
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