Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/23/05 13:35

New MSSQL DBA (boscong88@gmail.com) writes:
> I've tried this:
>
> use tempdb
> go
> dbcc shrinkfile(tempdev4, emptyfile)
> go
> alter database tempdb
> remove file tempdev4
> go
>
>
> then it gives something like this:
>
> Server: Msg 5042, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
> The file 'tempdev4' cannot be removed because it is not empty.
> File 'E:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\tempdev4.ndf' modified in
> sysaltfiles. Delete old file after restarting SQL Server.
>
>
> Don't know what does this mean. Does it mean that the file will be
> dropped after I restarted the server?

I don't know, but why not give it a try?

If this is a production machine, you may want to first play with a
test server, to see the effects of the commands.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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