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There's a blog post about this here; <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2011/12/14/user-profile-synchronization-database-growing-out-of-control.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2011/12/14/user-profile-synchronization-database-growing-out-of-control.aspx</a>
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There's a blog post about this here; http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2011/12/14/user-profile-synchronization-database-growing-out-of-control.aspx [http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2011/12/14/user-profile-synchronization-database-growing-out-of-control.aspx]

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What I posted above is the recommended procedure and only supported fix for the issue (since Feb 2012).
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What I posted above is the recommended procedure and only supported fix for the issue (since Feb 2012).

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Why is the size of my SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service sync database so large? Can I shrink it?
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Why is the size of my SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service sync database so large? Can I shrink it?

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