What does DBCC SHRINKFILE do?

261 Asked by ColemanGarvin in SQL Server , Asked on Mar 17, 2023

I have a database which is 11TB in size. I recently truncated over 5TB of data from this database.

(I am fully familiar with all the reasons why you would not normally shrink a database please)

I'm curious about what the DBCC SHRINKFILE command is actually doing because when I run the command to shrink a file which is about 650000 MB in size with 45% free space it doesn't seem to actually move any pages around.

The code in question is:

USE [CAF] 
GO 
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'FILENAME' , 650239) 
GO
When I monitor the performance metrics of the server on executing DBCC SHRINKFILE I see the following

Answered by Claudine Tippins

What does DBCC SHRINKFILE do?

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