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can I shrink a database that is on a USB drive?

Asked by Jweaver57 in SQL Server 2005

Tags: usb, drive, database

I had a database that grew to large for the hard drive that it was on and tried to shrink but it would not shrink. I since moved the mdf and ldf to another drive and actually have started over with the database. I realize now we really need the old data and don't know how to go about recovering the database to the original server without filling up the drive. I know there is a lot of data in the database we don't need.

I have a usb drive connected to the server now and was hoping there would be a way I can move the mdf and ldf files to there and shrink them, then move them back to the original server.

Please help.

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can I shrink a database that is on a USB drive?

Asked by Jweaver57 in SQL Server 2005

Tags: usb, drive, database

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