Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/23/05 00:58

New MSSQL DBA (boscong88@gmail.com) writes:
> Hi all, I have a tempdb that consists of 8 datafiles, tempdb_data_1 to
> tempdb_data_8, each is 8GB. Now how can I drop 7 of them and leave
> only tempdb_data_1? Can this be done? Thanks a lot.

I have not tried it, but my naive guess is that you would do as for
any other database. That is first DBCC SHRINKFILE with EMPTYFILE, and
then ALTER DATABASE.


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