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DATABASE SIZE SHRINKING AND LOG FILE QUESTION

Hello all.  I have a database that is approx 625 Meg large currently.  I am not sure why it is getting so large it was only approx 200Meg about 2 weeks ago.  What I did was I dumped the log file and then did a shrink it went from 701 Meg to 625 Meg.  One of the tables is very large it has 1.3 million records in it.  I know that might be why it is so big.  But I was wondering it says in the properties of the database and on the data files tab it says space allocated 624 Meg.  Is there any checks I can do to see actually how big the database should be like by the records etc?  Any other way to shrink database more?
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