reclaim "unused space" from a table?

We have a table that is showing a large amount of "reserved" space:
Rows: 4095513
Reserved 11255328 KB
Data: 1176296 KB
Index_size: 531240 KB
unused: 9547792 KB
(found wiht sp_spaceused)
We have only simple types in this table... no ntext or blobs or
anything.
Just int, smalldatetime, varchar(50) etc. (only 10 fields)
So our data and indices come to about 1.6 GB, but "unused" space is 9.1
GB.
We are running out of drive space...why would it reserve so much space
for this table?"cmay" <cmay@.walshgroup.com> wrote in message
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> We have a table that is showing a large amount of "reserved" space:
> Rows: 4095513
> Reserved 11255328 KB
> Data: 1176296 KB
> Index_size: 531240 KB
> unused: 9547792 KB
> (found wiht sp_spaceused)
> We have only simple types in this table... no ntext or blobs or
> anything.
> Just int, smalldatetime, varchar(50) etc. (only 10 fields)
> So our data and indices come to about 1.6 GB, but "unused" space is 9.1
> GB.
> We are running out of drive space...why would it reserve so much space
> for this table?
>
What did you specify when you created the database? Take a look at DBCC
SHRINKFILE.
Rick Sawtell
MCT, MCSD, MCDBA|||Rick,
The DB was created like 10 years ago, so I have no idea what happened
back then.
The DB is set to auto grow by 10%. From what I have read shrinking the
DB won't solve this problem. The DB is 15 GB with just about all of it
being considered "used" (I could get back a couple hundred MB by
shrinking the DB), but the 9GB of space being eaten up by this one
table is what is really painful.
I tried running DBCC CleanTable but that didn't help either.
I'm going to try to insert all the data into a new table and then drop
the old one, but that isn't really ideal.
If there are any other things I can try I would love to give it a go.|||Can you try rebuilding the clustered index? That will automatically move all
the data to new space.
--
HTH
Kalen Delaney, SQL Server MVP
www.solidqualitylearning.com
"cmay" <cmay@.walshgroup.com> wrote in message
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> Rick,
> The DB was created like 10 years ago, so I have no idea what happened
> back then.
> The DB is set to auto grow by 10%. From what I have read shrinking the
> DB won't solve this problem. The DB is 15 GB with just about all of it
> being considered "used" (I could get back a couple hundred MB by
> shrinking the DB), but the 9GB of space being eaten up by this one
> table is what is really painful.
> I tried running DBCC CleanTable but that didn't help either.
> I'm going to try to insert all the data into a new table and then drop
> the old one, but that isn't really ideal.
> If there are any other things I can try I would love to give it a go.
>|||We actually didn't have a clustered index on this table.
I ended up running an insert from the offending table to a new table,
then dropped the old one, and the new one looks great.|||In general all tables should have a clustered index. You have no way to
control fragmentation or issues like this without one.
--
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"cmay" <cmay@.walshgroup.com> wrote in message
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> We actually didn't have a clustered index on this table.
> I ended up running an insert from the offending table to a new table,
> then dropped the old one, and the new one looks great.
>

rebuildm can not start sql server

Hi All,
I ran the rebuildm.exe and it had been showing "server configuration progress..." for more than 10 minutes. So I stopped that process manually. Now I can not start sql server. why?
When I start it, the status first changes to "starting" and again "stopped".
Please help...
Hi!
Rebuildm.exe copies master database files from CD (search for mast*.mdf and
mast*.ldf). When copied from CD, files are marked with read-only attribute.
This might be the reason for the problem. Copy the files mnually, change the
attribute and rerun rebuildm with copied files.
Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
Associate Mentor
Solid Quality Learning
More than just Training
www.SolidQualityLearning.com
"suresh" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I ran the rebuildm.exe and it had been showing "server configuration
progress..." for more than 10 minutes. So I stopped that process manually.
Now I can not start sql server. why?
> When I start it, the status first changes to "starting" and again
"stopped".
> Please help...
|||No, it does not work !
|||Any errors in Windows Event Log and SQL Server Error Log?
Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
Associate Mentor
Solid Quality Learning
More than just Training
www.SolidQualityLearning.com
"suresh" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> No, it does not work !
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