Shrink Bloated Development Databases – Save Precious Space
Shrink Bloated Development Databases – Last night I noticed that the space on my C drive was running slightly low. When this happens, I usually go and look in the temp folder to see what unnecessary space hogs are hiding there. After clearing this folder I realised that the amount of data removed from this folder didn’t make much of a difference. I then went hunting. Using a very nifty tool called WinDirStat, I found the problem files. It turns out that some of my development databases were absolutely huge. The LDF files were several gigs in size. Here is what I did to save a little bit of space. (more…)