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Exchange 2013- How to know you've moved all database content?

I have an Exchange 2013 organization and I have a database that is completely uncooperative. It won't mount unless I -Force it to mount. I created a fresh database to migrate the data into. It's a very small number of mailboxes and other resources. How do I know if there is actually anything left in it, and how do I identify what's left to move?
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Get-MoveRequest | Get-MoveRequestStatistics
this should show the status of the mailbox moves you initiated. if they are completed with no errors then you are good.

if you want to check the database  you can do so by

get-mailbox -Database <DatabaseNamne>
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Thanks for the responses, and so quickly too! so, all I have to do to say "this database is empty" is to have no results return when I run the get-mailbox command.....
All of my moves had completed a few weeks ago, but today a fire was lit underneath me to get this done.... just wanted to make sure that while in panic mode I wasn't missing something. I'm going to check on the archiving and arbitration mailboxes as well!

One more question- I ran the "get-mailbox -database Other" command, and the results I got back had a "Server" column and it lists one of our servers for the mailboxes... except the last entry lists one of our other servers- is it actually using two different servers for the same database? or did I misunderstand the output of the command?
"Get-Mailbox -Database DATABASE_NAME" alone won't show you the arbitration and archive mailboxes.
right- I got that... I'm going to run those commands after I move the mailboxes that came up with that get-mailbox command. I do appreciate the help!
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